[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

I understand why you post these myth debunkers, but are introverts not responsible for responding in a civil way when people talk to them or ask them a question?

I think the myths exists because so often, the introvert gives little or no verbal feedback to a question or statement in a discussion, and their facial expression is totally blank or looks thoroughly disgusted. The person on the other side of the conversation or inquiry is left wondering.

I asked the question above because of this statement in the myth busters above:

A world without Introverts would be a world with few scientists, musicians, artists, poets, filmmakers, doctors, mathematicians, writers, and philosophers.

This is so true. However, don't scientists', filmmakers' and doctors' (especially doctors') success depend on having good interpersonal communication skills?

People write here all the time about doctors who are rude, arrogant, condescending, and who do not talk to the patient as if the patient had any brains.

Patients often leave a very skilled, brainy doctor because he acts too smart to come down to the patient's mere level of thinking, or because she seems cold as ice and cannot relate to a person's suffering. People have also written here that they have dumped a doctor not because his/her knowledge or diagnostic skills were lacking, but because his/her office staff person was rude, condescending, and abrupt...refusing to even try to accommodate the "customer's" needs.

I've read various times that people now make 4-5 career changes throughout their lives, and it's mostly due to problems with interpersonal relations.

Should "gifted" students in K-12 be given a pass on answering people politely and thoroughly, or should they be allowed to stare blankly at the teacher when he/she asks them a question or holds a discussion, because they find their interior world so much more stimulating?

Should they be given the impression that they need not bother inter-acting with others because they are so much smarter than extroverts who they conclude "just flap their jaws and say nothing of worth"?

The list is very accurate, but I think teaching bright introverts how to interact with others is extremely important if they are going into a career that is people-oriented, like teaching, nursing, medicine, etc.