“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” Albert Camus Not too long ago, I was assigned to lead a fairly large project at work. It involved heavy interactions with various departments, endless meetings, lots of brainstorming exercises, and more importantly—a need for a skillful and charismatic leader, who can build …
Confidence is contagious. See those who have it, study them, emulate them. ‘Mirroring’ is not a loss of personality but a shortcut to winning behaviours, without the costly trial and error experiences.
We all know that the Big Five personality traits—openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism—are important personality-determinants. Their varying combination in each of us dictates why we evolve to become who we are. And up until recently, scientists believed that we can’t do a single thing to change this. Or, as the saying goes …
Don’t confuse my introversion with lack of self-esteem. I know how much I am worth, even though I choose to not flaunt it to the world.