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Bobby wrote:Introversion means preferring to recharge your batteries in solitude and finding large groups of people tiring. Extroverts are energised by large groups of people and do not really like being alone. Most people prefer one way of recharging to the other. So, which way do you lean?
I think it would indeed be. Curiously in my learning about Aspergers, I came across a list of professions where Aspies may excel and thrive. And on that list were, Engineer AND College Professor. So I hit 2 rolled into one when after being an engineer for years, I went back to college and added my PHD in Mechanical Engineeringto become a professor at two different universities. Too bad I cannot remember where I found that, perhaps we might find your specialty there as well.Petros wrote:"My lecture style could best be described as quirky with a touch of bombasticness."
You been stealing my lecture notes, man? It would be interesting to compare your somewhat Aspie Engineering lecture quirks with my somewhat Aspie Humanities lecture quirks.
And we score another match here as well. With a new batch of students who had never had me for a previous class, it was my custom to head off some awkwardness by informing them thatPetros wrote:..... AND carefully use names as little as possible. Though if one student pronounces her name wildly off tradition to avoid an obvious pun 'pataphysically, I will remember it, and I will assume the guy who shows at 2:15 when I have an appointment with Roland Liebert IS Roland Liebert....
So in functioning as an introvert professor have you developed any other strategies to accommodate yourself to the extroverts among the students and facculty?In his previous quote Petros wrote:I do not lean. I stand tall and affirm:
An Introvert I
Do I perceive from this statement an implication that you are also a misfit much as I am.Petros wrote:.... Especially for people who do not fit the standard business or academic model.
The next time at church services I told the pastor about this and asked him how he would have answered this: He tried to turn the question back on me by asking, "How did YOU answer it?". I explained that the question had given me some pause because of what it might imply, but I chose to answer it "No", and went on to explain that as a lay member of the congregation I have only an "ordinary" mission from God, but since he was a pastor I thought he would have to answer that he did indeed have a "special" mission from God!True or False: "I have a special mission from God"
Two points about that:Petros wrote:I know on the MBTI there are two categories where I am on the cusp and - depending how I read the inadequately worded queries - show on different sides in two consecutive tries. One morning I took four different near-MBTIs - off brand clones - and got four different assessments.
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