Being surrounded by extroverts this makes me look disinterested, shy or even rude sometimes, but I think the world is balanced because there are speakers as well as listeners. But I remember this party where there were many people like me, after a while there was a lot of silence and eventually we started making conversation and we had a lot of fun. It is a myth that you need to be loud overly gregarious “Network” a lot to be successful in a b-school, in fact in one of my Organizational Behaviour classes this myth was shattered.
As my professor succinctly explained, there is no introvert or extrovert in the world of work, everyone does whatever it takes to get a job done.He paused for a moment and asked us, “How would you categorise me as? Introvert or extrovert? “, he gave us some time to speculate. Our professor is a funny guy and likes to talk at length, most of us concluded that he was an extrovert. He later told us that he was an introvert and he had taken multiple MBTI tests and found that his personality type was introvert, in his personal life he could draw several parallel’s to the introvert character type. He said it all depends on where you draw your source of energy from, if it is the people around you or your own thoughts and reflections, or as it happens in several cases a combination of both. In his case he said ,after a class he needed to spend some time alone in silence to recharge himself.
The MBTI (Myers –Briggs Type) Indicator test gives an indication of how we differently interpret our experiences and what underlies our interests, motivation and values. As students of Business Management, although a lot of my peers consider human resource management and related subjects as non-value added activity and would rather do number crunching on an excel sheet than discover themselves a bit, a few of us were fascinated by what we discussed in class that day. Our sir had given us a list of potential careers which would fit our personality type, what I saw just strengthened my belief (Writer being on the top!).
To survive in the real world it is very important to understand ourselves and what motivates us so that we can put our best foot forward. It’s important to understand the same about others, as future managers motivating teams and aligning the interest of the groups we work in will form an important part of our job.
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Dhruv Dhingra
"Skying over waves of thoughts,is sometimes a better fit than diving into ocean of conversations." Well written !
11 Mar 2017, 10.18 PM
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Nitya Muralidharan
Nitya Muralidharan is a Second year student at XLRI Jamshedpur, she is passionate about writing , marketing and new ideas.
Thank you :)
15 Mar 2017, 11.46 PM |
Hema Nandakumar
Lovely writeup Nithya
16 Mar 2017, 06.04 AM
balaji srinivasan
Most will never know what it’s like to make a living as a professional cook or chef, and that makes me smile. It’s something of which I am arrogantly proud. No, not because I think we’re better than anyone, but because of the fact that to be a really good cook or chef it takes tremendous physical, mental and emotional fortitude. Most people don’t have, nor appreciate the gifts we’ve been given. Seven days a week, we show up willing to get our asses kicked. We sign up for this in exchange for an opportunity to express ourselves through food.
Nice writing skills
16 Mar 2017, 07.38 AM
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Nitya Muralidharan
Nitya Muralidharan is a Second year student at XLRI Jamshedpur, she is passionate about writing , marketing and new ideas.
Thanks Hema :)
16 Mar 2017, 08.43 AM |
Nitya Muralidharan
Nitya Muralidharan is a Second year student at XLRI Jamshedpur, she is passionate about writing , marketing and new ideas.
Thanks :)
16 Mar 2017, 08.44 AM |
Nivedhan Kanakaraju
Well written Nitya
30 Mar 2017, 11.24 PM
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Nitya Muralidharan
Nitya Muralidharan is a Second year student at XLRI Jamshedpur, she is passionate about writing , marketing and new ideas.
Thanks Nivedhan :)
15 Jun 2017, 01.21 AM |
Mahalakshmi Subramanian
Atleast someone said it! Well-written piece Nitya.
26 May 2017, 03.18 AM