Now, I'll never forget when I worked in HR, I got passed over four times for opportunities that I was well qualified for. It had absolutely nothing to do with my skill and everything was my inability to really show up inside of my introversion because I laid low, I got the work done, but I wasn't using my voice in a way that would serve me. And so when I figured out that chat was what was getting in my way, I didn't try to become an introvert
Queen Fee
@Untethered · 5:00
But also it's a way for us to really take in information, to really understand that person so that we really know how to really engage with them in terms of building a powerful and meaningful relationship with them. I'm definitely a quiet leader. If you ever in a conversation with me, I'm probably not going to be saying a whole lot of words. I'll be doing a lot of listening because that's just the way I roll
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 2:40
Hi. Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge about this. I didn't know that it was National Introvert Week. I think that I am more of a natural introvert, but I have very big I have also extrovert tendencies
Queen Fee
@Untethered · 2:31
And I found that I am after the pandemic because I gotten so used to being in my cocoon that I have been a lot more resistant to gathering with people. And so I am definitely working on really being more intentional about getting out, actually getting out and gathering with people
I can definitely do it. It's just a matter of do I feel like it or do I want to? And it may come down to just home life. Do I have the energy to do it? Do I have the mental capacity to even want to work in that space? I think I'm operating in a point in my life where it just depends on the day, to be honest. Depends on the day whether I'm going to be an extrovert or an introvert
Nay
@Whatzupnay · 2:38
Thank you for sharing. Queen Fee, your post was the first post on Swell that I heard, and it intrigued me, actually, because I didn't know anything about Introverts Week. By the way, happy Introverts week. And secondly, about a week and a half ago, my son, who's 13, asked me, mom, do you consider yourself to be more introvert or more extrovert? My answer to him at the time was, I consider myself a little bit of both
Queen Fee
@Untethered · 1:12
So chat may be something that you may want to go check out to see if that aligns more with kind of how you show up in the world. But for you, it sounds like, really for you, it sounds like you're more of an introvert. Although you've said you feel like you're kind of in the middle, but based upon your dialogue here, it sounds like you're definitely more of an introvert. Or maybe you have just cycles of being more introverted versus in the middle
Queen Fee
@Untethered · 1:14
And I don't know if I ever consider you to be an introvert, but now that you've kind of explained how you kind of roll now, it does make sense that you kind of have gone more to the spectrum of being introverted, but maybe you are middle ground, and middle ground is called Ambie bird. A-M-B-I-V-E-R-T. So as you're doing some soul searching, maybe you want to research that term. I haven't done a lot of research around it because I'm definitely not an ambievert