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英语演讲稿6分钟英语演讲稿6分钟篇一英语演讲稿6分钟篇二英语演讲稿6分钟篇三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 e*act opposite of r-o-w-d-i-e. and then the second time i tried it, the counselor came up to me with a concerned e*pression 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 bed, 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 the 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 e*trovert. and i always sensed deep down that this was wrong and that introverts were pretty e*cellent 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 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 refle*ively, that i wasnt even aware that i was making them.now this is what many introverts do, and its our loss for sure, but it is also our colleagues loss and our communities loss. and at the risk of sounding grandiose, it is the worlds loss. because when it comes 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 every two or three people you know. so even if youre an e*trovert yourself, im talking about your coworkers and your spouses and your children and the person sitting ne*t 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 early 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 e*troverts 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 ma*imizing our talents is for us all to put ourselves in the zone of stimulation that is right for us.
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