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1、本文为本文为 WordWord版本，下载可任意编辑版本，下载可任意编辑the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me, Whyare you being so mellow? - mellow, of course, being the e*actopposite of R-O-W-D-I-E. And then the second time I tried it,(Laughter)the counselor came up to me with a concerned e*pression on herCamp wa
2、s more like a keg party without any alcohol. And onface and she repeated the point about camp spirit and said wethe very first day our counselor gathered us all together and sheshould all work very hard to be outgoing.taught us a cheer that she said we would be doing every day forAnd so I put my boo
3、ks away, back in their suitcase, andthe rest of the summer to instill camp spirit. And it went likeI put them under my bed, and there they stayed for the rest ofthis: R-O-W-D-I-E, thats the way we spell rowdie. Rowdie, rowdie,the summer. And I felt kind of guilty about this. I felt as iflets get row
4、die. Yeah. So I couldnt figure out for the life ofthe books needed me somehow, and they were calling out to me andme why we were supposed to be so rowdy, or why we had to spellI was forsaking them. But I did forsake them and I didnt openthis word incorrectly. (Laughter) But I recited a cheer. I reci
5、tedthat suitcase again until I was back home with my family at thea cheer along with everybody else. I did my best. And I just waitedend of the summer.for the time that I could go off and read my books.Now, I tell you this story about summer camp. I could haveBut the first time that I took my book o
6、ut of mysuitcase,第 1 页 共 6 页内向性格的力量英文演讲稿范文内向性格的力量英文演讲稿范文本文为本文为 WordWord版本，下载可任意编辑版本，下载可任意编辑told you 50 others just like it - all the times that I got themessage that somehow my quiet and introverted style of being wasnot necessarily the right way to go, that I should be trying topass as more ofan e*
7、trovert. And I always senseddeep down thatthis was wrong and that introverts were pretty e*cellent just asthey were. But for years I denied this intuition, and so I becamea Wall Street lawyer, of all things, instead of the writer thatI had always longed to be - partly because I needed to prove tomys
8、elf that I could be bold and assertive too. And I was alwaysgoing off to crowded bars when I really would have preferred tojust have a nice dinner with friends. And I made theseself-negating choices so refle*ively, that I wasnt even awarethat I was making them.Now this is what many introverts do, an
9、d its our loss forsure, 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 needintroverts doing what they do best. A third to a half of thepopulation are introverts - a thi
10、rd to a half. So thats one outof every two or three people you know. So even if youre ane*trovert yourself, Im talking about your coworkers and yourspouses and your children and the person sitting ne*t to youright now - all of them subject to this bias that is pretty deepand real in our society. We
11、all internalize it from a very earlyage without even having a language for what were doing.Now to see the bias clearly you need to understand whatintroversion is. Its different from being shy. Shyness is aboutfear of social judgment. Introversion is more about, how do you第 2 页 共 6 页本文为本文为 WordWord版本
12、，下载可任意编辑版本，下载可任意编辑respond to stimulation, including social stimulation. Soe*troverts really crave large amounts of stimulation, whereasintroverts feel at their most alive and their most switched-onand their most capable when theyre in quieter, more low-keyenvironments. Not all the time - these thing
13、s arent absolute -but a lot of the time. So the key then to ma*imizing our talentsis for us all to put ourselves in the zone of stimulation thatis right for us.But now heres where the bias comes in. Our most importantinstitutions, our schools and our workplaces,they are designedmostly for e*troverts
14、 and for e*troverts need for lots ofstimulation. And also we have this belief system right now thatI call the new groupthink, which holds that all creativity andall productivity comes from a very oddly gregarious place.So if you picture the typical classroom nowadays: When Iwas going to school, we s
15、at in rows. We sat in rows of desks likethis, and we did most of our work pretty autonomously. Butnowadays, your typical classroom has pods of desks - four orfive or si* or seven kids all facing each other. And kids areworking in countless group assignments. Even in subjects likemath and creative wr
16、iting, which you think would depend on soloflights of thought, kids are now e*pected to act as committeemembers. And for the kids who prefer to go off by themselves orjust to work alone, those kids are seen as outliers often or,worse, as problem cases. And the vast majority of teachersreports believ
17、ing that the ideal student is an e*trovert asopposed to an introvert, even though introverts actually getbetter grades and are more knowledgeable, according to research.第 3 页 共 6 页本文为本文为 WordWord版本，下载可任意编辑版本，下载可任意编辑(Laughter)Okay, same thing is true in our workplaces. Now, most ofus work in open pla
18、n offices, without walls, where we are subjectto the constant noise and gaze of our coworkers. And when it comesto leadership, introverts are routinely passed over forleadership positions, even though introverts tend to be verycareful, much less likely to take outsize risks - which issomething we mi
19、ght all favor nowadays. And interesting researchby Adam Grant at the Wharton School has found that introvertedleaders often deliver better outcomes than e*troverts do, becausewhen they are managing proactive employees, theyre much morelikely to let those employees run with their ideas, whereas ane*t
20、rovert can, quite unwittingly, get so e*cited about thingsthat theyre putting their own stamp on things, and other peoplesideas might not as easily then bubble up to the surface.Now in fact, some of our transformative leaders in historyhave been introverts. Ill give you some e*amples. EleanorRooseve
21、lt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi - all these peopled describedthemselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they alltook the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies wastelling them not to. And this turns out to have a special powerall its own, because people could feel that these leaders wer
22、eat the helm, not because they enjoyed directing others and notout of the pleasure of being looked at; they were there becausethey had no choice, because they were driven to do what theythought was right.Now I think at this point its important for me to say thatI actually love e*troverts. I always l
23、ike to say some of my best第 4 页 共 6 页本文为本文为 WordWord版本，下载可任意编辑版本，下载可任意编辑friends are e*troverts, including my beloved husband. And we allfall at different points, of course, along theintrovert/e*trovert spectrum. Even Carl Jung, the psychologistwho first popularized these terms, said that theres no s
24、uch thingas a pure introvert or a pure e*trovert. He said that such a manwould be in a lunatic asylum, if he e*isted at all. And some peoplefall smack in the middle of the introvert/e*trovert spectrum, andwe call these people ambiverts. And I often think that they havethe best of all worlds. But man
25、y of usdo recognize ourselvesasone type or the other.And what Im saying is that culturally we need a much betterbalance. We need more of a yinand yang between these two types.This is especially important when it comes to creativity and toproductivity, because when psychologists look at the lives of
26、themost creative people, what they find are people who are very goodat e*changing ideas and advancing ideas, but who also have aserious streak of introversion in them.And this is because solitude is a crucial ingredient oftento creativity. So Darwin, hetook long walksalone in the woodsand emphatical
27、ly turned downdinner party invitations. TheodorGeisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, he dreamed up many of hisamazing creations in a lonely bell tower office that he had inthe back of his house in La Jolla, California. And he was actuallyafraid to meet the young children who read his books for fearthat
28、 they were e*pecting him this kind of jolly Santa Claus-likefigure and would be disappointed with his more reserved persona.Steve Wozniak invented the first Apple computer sitting alonein his cubical in Hewlett-Packard where he was working at the第 5 页 共 6 页本文为本文为 WordWord版本，下载可任意编辑版本，下载可任意编辑time. An
29、d he says that he never would have become such an e*pertin the first place had he not been too introverted to leave thehouse when he was growing up.Now of course, this does not mean that we should all stopcollaborating - and case in point, is Steve Wozniak famouslycoming together with Steve Jobs to
30、start Apple Computer - butit does mean that solitude matters and that for some people itis the air that they breathe. And in fact, we have known forcenturies about the transcendent power of solitude. Its onlyrecently that weve strangely begun to forget it. If you look atmost of the worlds major reli
31、gions, you will find seekers - Moses,Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad - seekers who are going off by themselvesalone to the wilderness where they then have profound epiphaniesand revelations that they then bring back to the rest of thecommunity. So no wilderness, no revelations.This is no surprise though if
32、you look at the insights ofcontemporary psychology. It turns out that we cant even be ina group of people without instinctively mirroring, mimickingtheir opinions. Even about seemingly personal and visceralthings like who youre attracted to, you will start aping thebeliefs of the people around you without even realizing thatthats what youre doing.第 6 页 共 6 页
