Is Being Introverted Affecting Your Confidence?

You're reading Is Being Introverted Affecting Your Confidence?, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. 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 “it is what it is.” But now, we’ve been told that we can actually influence our Big 5s and mend our personalities—for instance, we can become more extroverted or less neurotic. And that’s exciting news for us introverts out there. Although we may be generally happy with who we are, many also wouldn’t mind having the option to boost our social skills now and then, when the situation calls for it. But these recent personality discoveries also raise a plethora of other questions. Such as—if we can now influence our social aversion and quietness, will this perhaps help fix our confidence too? The answer, more often than not, is no. Let me explain why. So far, what we’ve largely known about how personality affects our behavior, has implied the existence of an implicit connection—that being an introvert may be somewhat of an obstacle toward building and maintaining confidence...
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