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Every so often, those of us who are introverts get some good and helpful press.

23 Signs You are an Introvert

I do not need 23 signs to know that I am an introvert. And happy to say so. I have been "out" for maybe 15 years. Maybe more.

Many of these items apply or used to.

I am not reforming particularly but the older I get the more I see that there are a few advantages to "coming out of my shell" (one of the items). I do enjoy being with a select few people now and can be gregarious for maybe up to ten minutes before it becomes boring and time consuming.

I do not screen calls from anyone. Period. I used to though. I found that, as a practical necessity (now listen carefully to this) that it was a lot easier to get over people and get them out of the way by answering the phone than to store up messages I did not want to answer. Get it? I have found new technology supports my introvert very nicely. I know who is calling all the time so I have a few seconds to plan my disengagement before I say hello.

Most of the rest of it is true. If anything, truer. I have reached the age where I simply do not go to parties. Period. Never. If you held one for me I would probably not be there. (There is a great movie we just saw that has this as a feature of the hero's behavior). I do not bother now, since I do not have to do it for work, to socialize with anyone that I interact with from a business point of view.

I interview kids for MIT. I do not spend any time at all with them joking around or doing the social shit that MIT wants us to do at local workshops and stuff. I do not even attend their on line workshops for the people who do this interviewing stuff. Not me. Not now. Not ever.

And so on.

I know that there is at least one reader of this blog who is into the introversion thing. He still does some training out there with real clients that he sees on the road. I bet any money that he makes himself scarce around dinner time or goes to another hotel or restaurant to avoid even one of his participants.

Well, I do not know this but I bet. I would be doing that if I still worked.

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