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by fswd 1287 days ago
You might be introvert, which means you feel compelled to prepare yourself before a meeting or presentation. Without this, you feel anxiety. Giving impromptu talks is easier with an extrovert personality. With some effort, you could switch. I am also introvert and so far have failed 100% of the white board style interviews, basically big tech interviews are heavily biased against interverts. I try to hint to this by saying I'm not much of a social butterfly. To be honest I perplexed to even think how extroverts find enough time to be productive at coding which requires long uninterrupted time in front of an editor. The whole working from home helped introverts out, but I guess that is going away for some companies.

Anyway, TLDR: Become an extrovert.

2 comments

>which means you feel compelled to prepare yourself before a meeting or presentation.

This has absolutely nothing to do with introversion

>Without this, you feel anxiety.

Introverts aren't necessarily anxious people

You're making the mistake a lot of people online do where you're conflating social anxiety with introversion. Both make you not want to be around people, but for very different reasons.

> Anyway, TLDR: Become an extrovert.

As an introvert, becoming an extrovert always comes across as playing a role, being an actor, my character is introvert and anything else is acting.

So for me, an introvert can't become an extrovert, but an introvert can play at being an extrovert.

Yes this is true.