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Patrick King

Introvert Survival Tactics

  • Sofiahas quoted2 years ago
    I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone – Audrey Hepburn
  • Aleksandra Dimitrijevichas quotedlast year
    On the first and somewhat more obvious level, they allow you to dissect and examine what you are doing with your life. They subconsciously make you ask questions like:

    What do I really want to do?
    What actually matters?
    Why am I doing something?
    What can I avoid?
    Who is going to be happy from this—is it me?
    Is this a real priority?
    What’s my real motivation or this?
  • Aleksandra Dimitrijevichas quotedlast year
    Planning around the expected expenditure and not your time availability is going to help you budget your energy better so you don’t get overwhelmed, because you manage yourself better and don’t place yourself in situations to get overwhelmed. Understand your own boundaries and, like the previous point, gain a conscious understanding of what you have been doing to yourself.
  • Aleksandra Dimitrijevichas quotedlast year
    Don’t feel guilty about taking a break or not being productive for a change. It’s recovery, which is something professional athletes do between training and competition. It’s something you are entitled to, shouldn’t feel ashamed about, and ultimately need.
  • Sofiahas quoted2 years ago
    One of the biggest nightmares for an introvert is mandatory socializing.
  • Sofiahas quoted2 years ago
    Introverts have the tendency to think, overthink, reflect, and adapt to situations better than extroverts because they are more likely to be processing rather than expressing.
  • Sofiahas quoted2 years ago
    the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
  • Sofiahas quoted2 years ago
    Respect their need for alone time and don’t take it personally.
    Give them some time to adapt to new situations, because they are already uncomfortable.
  • Sofiahas quoted2 years ago
    It’s important for the friends of introverts to gain an understanding of their nature so they don’t take things personally when their attempts at socialization are rejected.
  • Murusakiihas quoted2 years ago
    If you just feel that something is wrong with you because you don’t always welcome the enormous parties, it’s likely that you’ll keep attempting to fit in with the extrovert ideal—and fail as miserably as a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. When this failure cycle repeats a few times, it’s inevitable that your self-e
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