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1、内向性格的力量英文演讲稿 内向性格的力量英文演讲稿范文 When I was nine years old I went off to summer camp for the first time.And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books,which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do.Because in my family,reading was the primary group activity.And this might sound antisocial to y

2、ou,but for us it was really just a different way of being social.You have the animal warmth of your family sitting right next to you,but you are also free to go roaming around the adventureland inside your own mind.And I had this idea that camp was going to be just like this,but better.(Laughter)I h

3、ad a vision of 10 girls sitting in a cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns.(Laughter)Camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol.And on the very first day our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that she said we would be doing every day for the rest

4、of the summer to instill camp spirit.And it went like this:R-O-W-D-I-E,thats the way we spell rowdie.Rowdie,rowdie,lets get rowdie.Yeah.So I couldnt figure out for the life of me why we were supposed to be so rowdy,or why we had to spell this word incorrectly.(Laughter)But I recited a cheer.I recite

5、d a cheer along with everybody else.I did my best.And I just waited for the time that I could go off and read my books.But the first time that I took my book out of my suitcase,the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me,Why are you being so mellow?-mellow,of course,being the exact o

6、pposite of R-O-W-D-I-E.And then the second time I tried it,the counselor came up to me with a concerned expression on her face and she repeated the point about camp spirit and said we should all work very hard to be outgoing.And so I put my books away,back in their suitcase,and I put them under my b

7、ed,and there they stayed for the rest of the summer.And I felt kind of guilty about this.I felt as if the books needed me somehow,and they were calling out to me and I was forsaking them.But I did forsake them and I didnt open that suitcase again until I was back home with my family at the end of th

8、e summer.Now,I tell you this story about summer camp.I could have told you 50 others just like it-all the times that I got the message that somehow my quiet and introverted style of being was not necessarily the right way to go,that I should be trying to pass as more of an extrovert.And I always sen

9、sed deep down that this was wrong and that introverts were pretty excellent just as they were.But for years I denied this intuition,and so I became a Wall Street lawyer,of all things,instead of the writer that I had always longed to be-partly because I needed to prove to myself that I could be bold

10、and assertive too.And I was always going off to crowded bars when I really would have preferred to just have a nice dinner with friends.And I made these self-negating choices so reflexively,that I wasnt even aware that I was making them.Now this is what many introverts do,and its our loss for sure,b

11、ut it is also our colleagues loss and our munities loss.And at the risk of sounding grandiose,it is the worlds loss.Because when it es to creativity and to leadership,we need introverts doing what they do best.A third to a half of the population are introverts-a third to a half.So thats one out of e

12、very two or three people you know.So even if youre an extrovert yourself,Im talking about your coworkers and your spouses and your children and the person sitting next to you right now-all of them subject to this bias that is pretty deep and real in our society.We all internalize it from a very earl

13、y age without even having a language for what were doing.Now to see the bias clearly you need to understand what introversion is.Its different from being shy.Shyness is about fear of social judgment.Introversion is more about,how do you respond to stimulation,including social stimulation.So extrover

14、ts really crave large amounts of stimulation,whereas introverts feel at their most alive and their most switched-on and their most capable when theyre in quieter,more low-key environments.Not all the time-these things arent absolute-but a lot of the time.So the key then to maximizing our talents is

15、for us all to put ourselves in the zone of stimulation that is right for us.But now heres where the bias es in.Our most important institutions,our schools and our workplaces,they are designed mostly for extroverts and for extroverts need for lots of stimulation.And also we have this belief system ri

16、ght now that I call the new groupthink,which holds that all creativity and all productivity es from a very oddly gregarious place.So if you picture the typical classroom nowadays:When I was going to school,we sat in rows.We sat in rows of desks like this,and we did most of our work pretty autonomous

17、ly.But nowadays,your typical classroom has pods of desks-four or five or six or seven kids all facing each other.And kids are working in countless group assignments.Even in subjects like math and creative writing,which you think would depend on solo flights of thought,kids are now expected to act as

18、 mittee members.And for the kids who prefer to go off by themselves or just to work alone,those kids are seen as outliers often or,worse,as problem cases.And the vast majority of teachers reports believing that the ideal student is an extrovert as opposed to an introvert,even though introverts actua

19、lly get better grades and are more knowledgeable,aording to research.(Laughter)Okay,same thing is true in our workplaces.Now,most of us work in open plan offices,without walls,where we are subject to the constant noise and gaze of our coworkers.And when it es to leadership,introverts are routinely p

20、assed over for leadership positions,even though introverts tend to be very careful,much less likely to take outsize risks-which is something we might all favor nowadays.And interesting research by Adam Grant at the Wharton School has found that introverted leaders often deliver better outes than ext

21、roverts do,because when they are managing proactive employees,theyre much more likely to let those employees run with their ideas,whereas an extrovert can,quite unwittingly,get so excited about things that theyre putting their own stamp on things,and other peoples ideas might not as easily then bubb

22、le up to the surface.Now in fact,some of our transformative leaders in history have been introverts.Ill give you some examples.Eleanor Roosevelt,Rosa Parks,Gandhi-all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy.And they all took the spotlight,even though every bone in th

23、eir bodies was telling them not to.And this turns out to have a special power all its own,because people could feel that these leaders were at the helm,not because they enjoyed directing others and not out of the pleasure of being looked at;they were there because they had no choice,because they wer

24、e driven to do what they thought was right.Now I think at this point its important for me to say that I actually love extroverts.I always like to say some of my best friends are extroverts,including my beloved husband.And we all fall at different points,of course,along the introvert/extrovert spectr

25、um.Even Carl Jung,the psychologist who first popularized these terms,said that theres no such thing as a pure introvert or a pure extrovert.He said that such a man would be in a lunatic asylum,if he existed at all.And some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert/extrovert spectrum,and we ca

26、ll these people ambiverts.And I often think that they have the best of all worlds.But many of us do recognize ourselves as one type or the other.And what Im saying is that culturally we need a much better balance.We need more of a yin and yang between these two types.This is especially important whe

27、n it es to creativity and to productivity,because when psychologists look at the lives of the most creative people,what they find are people who are very good at exchanging ideas and advancing ideas,but who also have a serious streak of introversion in them.And this is because solitude is a crucial

28、ingredient often to creativity.So Darwin,he took long walks alone in the woods and emphatically turned down dinner party invitations.Theodor Geisel,better known as Dr.Seuss,he dreamed up many of his amazing creations in a lonely bell tower office that he had in the back of his house in La Jolla,Cali

29、fornia.And he was actually afraid to meet the young children who read his books for fear that they were expecting him this kind of jolly Santa Claus-like figure and would be disappointed with his more reserved persona.Steve Wozniak invented the first Apple puter sitting alone in his cubical in Hewle

30、tt-Packard where he was working at the time.And he says that he never would have bee such an expert in the first place had he not been too introverted to leave the house when he was growing up.Now of course,this does not mean that we should all stop collaborating-and case in point,is Steve Wozniak f

31、amously ing together with Steve Jobs to start Apple Computer-but it does mean that solitude matters and that for some people it is the air that they breathe.And in fact,we have known for centuries about the transcendent power of solitude.Its only recently that weve strangely begun to forget it.If yo

32、u look at most of the worlds major religions,you will find seekers-Moses,Jesus,Buddha,Muhammad-seekers who are going off by themselves alone to the wilderness where they then have profound epiphanies and revelations that they then bring back to the rest of the munity.So no wilderness,no revelations.

33、This is no surprise though if you look at the insights of contemporary psychology.It turns out that we cant even be in a group of people without instinctively mirroring,mimicking their opinions.Even about seemingly personal and visceral things like who youre attracted to,you will start aping the beliefs of the people around you without even realizing that thats what youre doing.