introversion
Dec. 29th, 2005 14:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhasupergee writes about introversion and paying attention.
i am copying my comment to have it here for further ponderings.
i think the introvert/extravert distinction is really important, yes. but i wonder whether the paying attention stuff is not actually on a different axis from introversion. i am a strong introvert, but i don't have trouble with paying attention. in fact much of the joy in my life comes from paying attention. i don't mind travel at all, except for the people, *heh*. i prefer to drive myself so i am not piled into a container with too many other people in too close a proximity. i like the great outdoors, i love discovering and learning more things about life. i find watching people fascinating, it's just interacting with them that wears me out.
bodily maintenance annoys me not because of the paying attention part, but because it is maintenance, and i find that boring, and basically want to take the sysadmin approach: automate it as much as possible, and only pay attention to new and different stuff.
i am copying my comment to have it here for further ponderings.
i think the introvert/extravert distinction is really important, yes. but i wonder whether the paying attention stuff is not actually on a different axis from introversion. i am a strong introvert, but i don't have trouble with paying attention. in fact much of the joy in my life comes from paying attention. i don't mind travel at all, except for the people, *heh*. i prefer to drive myself so i am not piled into a container with too many other people in too close a proximity. i like the great outdoors, i love discovering and learning more things about life. i find watching people fascinating, it's just interacting with them that wears me out.
bodily maintenance annoys me not because of the paying attention part, but because it is maintenance, and i find that boring, and basically want to take the sysadmin approach: automate it as much as possible, and only pay attention to new and different stuff.
Hey, I got a firt noste!
on 2006-01-01 03:33 (UTC)