Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Insane People and Minecraft

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/why-extroverts-fail-introverts-flounder-and-you-probably-succeed/2013/01/28/bc4949b0-695d-11e2-95b3-272d604a10a3_story.html?hpid=z2

^ That's an article.  You should skim over it, because it's what this post is about.  Or you could look at the below and I'll give a summary.

INSANE PEOPLE - The gist of this article is stating that ambiverts (Vocabulary - ambivert is the middle of the spectrum of introverts and extroverts.  But you're so smart you probably already knew that.) are better than introverts AND extroverts at sales, disproving the what used to be canon statement that extroverts are the best at sales.  In fact, extroverts were barely even better than introverts in the study.  The proof behind these statements is in the tests that the social scientists performed- they took some people, asked them to rate themselves on a scale of one to seven on whether they were introverted and extroverted.  Then they had the people perform sales jobs.  Wouldn't you know it, the closer you were to 4 on the scale- that is, the exact middle- the more you earned.  What does this have to do with insanity?  Nothing, but I think it has something to tell us about how we think about what we should look like and how we should act.  See, not every female out there is looking for an olympic weight lifter, and not every guy is looking for some busty blonde out of some magazine (I know I'm not, but then again I'm sort of a dork and probably couldn't get a girl like that, but this is besides my point).  What I'm trying to say is, just as you sometimes shouldn't be the loudest or the quietest voice in the crowd, so should  you not try to be extraordinary.  Don't take this the wrong way, just try to be you.  Don't set astronomical goals for yourself, but don't fade into the background either.  I'm not saying be average, just be different.  Not too different.  A little bit.  I'm starting to wonder if this came out right, but if you understand, just send a comment my way, alright?

MINECRAFT- This doesn't have anything to do about the article.  I've started to like Minecraft again.  If you want to play online with me sometime (provided you didn't torrent the game, you evil person), the IP of the server is this:  MC.Hollowed.org

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