“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 …
Yes, I’m introverted, a bit socially awkward sometimes. I hate talking about the weather and everything else trivial. I’m different than you, but so are you to me. Don’t judge my uniqueness.
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 …