Introvert Extrovert

I was an introvert. Striking a conversation made me feel uneasy, and nerve-wrecking. I didn't quite enjoy those moments, when I was turned down an initially friendly 'hello', which eventually turned awkward and sour. I could blame that to my personality. I was an introvert after all, but I learned eventually that, I was just unprepared.

Whether you are an introvert or an extrovert, babies are born the same; we all were little cute fellas with unending capacity for curiosity. But does this make us either? Well, the fact is it doesn't make you either. Whether you are an introvert or an extrovert, you are different only through the process of your upbringing and your environmental stimulation. So, rather than point your fingers on NATURE, why not work some ways to your NURTURE?

Many examples of successful people enjoy time to themselves. If that's how introvert works, then they must be one. But when you think about it, business models run on people and network factors. Be it your consumers, investors, sleeping partners, active partners, so forth, a business without human interactions is no business at all, yes?

I still am an introvert. But I feel at ease now around people; familiar or not, I am more relaxed and I am only best at being myself. Further into the days, I get to know my ways around people, and now I have more friends than I have started with a year ago. Rapid changes happened within weeks when sincere efforts are put into working things out the way you want it. In short, you get what you want when you hack your ways into it. 

Then you'd realize, an introvert does not necessarily be bad at networking and communication. Yet again, these are merely skills that can be learned and perfected through time, just as how everyone has perfected our daily rituals, such as writing, reading, speaking our mother tongues, walking, running, showering, eating, and so many more. However, research has proven that introverts make great communicators and communicators are of course, great at networking. So, may I know what are your excuses again?