I have learned more about personalities than I did in general psychology. After reading Quiet, I believe that is a better psychology book than the required textbook. Learning about true introverts and how and why they act broke the stereotype of the unending writing of any composition class. I got to learn, analyze, and express my thoughts on how they interact and I did not know how that I shared some of their traits. I enjoy learning and seeing how people tick and what makes them (re)act because I take those experiences and use it for pleasant surprises and avoid negative situations.
Learning about people's personalities is always interesting for me because they are like twins: there are no two that are identical because there are too many variables to factor in. Two people may enjoy the same activities and dislike the same foods, but their reactions to a situation could be polar opposites. For example, Jane Doe and Dawn Doe are identical twins, introverted, like the same movies, eat the same food, and have the same friends. One day, they needed to free their basement of spiders. They begin the chore and a spider falls on each of them. Jane screams and smacks the spider, killing it, and runs upstairs and never comes back. Dawn gasps but calmly takes the spider off her arm and places it in the bucket trying not to squish it. Neither sister has arachnophobia nor is allergic to spider bites.
Why did Jane react the way she did? Most introverts are calm, collected, and think before they act. The most probable answer is that she can socialize with a small group of friends, but when something unexpected occurs she overreacts and becomes a pseudo extrovert.
I always loved psychology. My mom was a psychology major getting her master's degree when I was really young and she used to use my brother and I as little hamster experiments. We were her 'social butterfly' and 'shy guy'. Jane and I are similar in that we are pseudo extroverts. My mom always thought that I was a 'social butterfly', but I believe that I am like Jane.
ReplyDeleteI liked that you really took the time to go into depth with this post. With the profession I am in, it’s ninety five percent reading people and the other five percent paper work. Within my profession I deal with a multitude of personalities and I feel this reading has increased my knowledge of them. It is really fascinating to see how people tick and why they tick the way they do. I like that you talked about stereotypes, because people are judged by them way to frequent. I think it would have been cool if you compared your family’s personalities to the ones of the reading.
ReplyDeletePeoples' personalities are truly interesting. When encountering people, the quote from Forest Gump, "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get," sums it up. I like how you used twins as your foundation for personalities, but what about snowflakes? Genetically, identical twins have the same DNA; but no two snowflakes, like personalities, are alike. Your input on introverts and extroverts in your freewrite, really made me see where each person (point of view) comes from; how we all react differently in certain situations or environments. Your title caught my attention to your post. Your title brought my attention to your post because it secretly identifies how we view other individuals. What makes people act the way we do? If a spider landed on your shoulder what would you do?
ReplyDeletePeoples personalities can be very interesting. Sitting back and watching you can learn so much about one person. I like how you used very detailed examples. When you talked about this you made me look at this in a different view then I looked at it. You got my attention in your post. Once again good job.
ReplyDeleteWhat I found interesting about reading our classmates' responses to the first blog prompt was the proportion of introverts to extroverts. The majority of this online class in made up of introverts. I wonder what the correlation is between introverts and online classes. In regards to being a pseudo extrovert, extroverted behavior and introverted behavior overlap at any point and at any time. It is the spatial and temporal nature of the behaviors that identifies each person as predominately introverted or extroverted. As a self-diagnosed extrovert, I know for sure I handle some situations with introverted behavior. It is the magnitude of the event that I'm reacting to that I take into account when I determine which type of personality I have. Susan Cain opened up my mind to another level of analyzing personalities, and I think it has allowed me to understand my peers more.
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