We know a lot of introverts. You might be one. Many of the gifted people that we work with tend to be … a bit on the less-than-social side. Interestingly, many of the people who work with the public, like my partners and I, are often actually pretty introverted. I learned only recently that there is such a thing as “extroverted introverts” – people who can walk and work in that social world but are perfectly happy in their aloneness. (This explains my fantasy of living up in a fire tower with a locked gate on the bottom.) The following provides some really good advice for us.
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