June 14th, 2018

Today we watch an interesting video about the five pillars of the personality. The pillars form the word OCEAN: O= Open to experience, C= Conscientiousness, E= Extrovert, A= Agreeable, N= Neurotic Individual. All these features have an opposite, for example, the opposite of extrovert is introvert, neurotic individual versus stable.
The speaker of the video focused in the third pillar: Extroverts and introverts.
He said that extroverts need stimulation, for example, have a parties, noisy louds, social events. To the other hand, introverts prefer to be alone, in quite spaces, and they don't need stimulation. When extroverts talk they are closer to the other person, looking in their eyes, using diminutive terms and saying point blank everything.

He said a good point too, if we are introverts or extroverts we cannot change ourselves. If we try to change our personality, we will feel tired and empty. So is better be ourselves. He is right about the characteristics of the personalities, because I am an introvert person and my sister is an extrovert person, so I now what is the behavior of both personalities.

After to watch the video, the teacher separated the classroom in two groups, one of them was a representation of introverts and the other one, extroverts. We had to discussed what of the personalities is better if we are the owners of a company. I was in the group of extroverts, so it was very contradictory say advantages of be an extrovert person, because I am not. The activity was funny, but I don’t like the perspective that the people have about the introverts. During the class I realized that all the extroverts think that introverts are shy, or that we don’t have social skills or we are not competent to work with people (because we are shy) but we are not. We just feel tired when we have to interact a lot of time with others but we can do it. We need more time alone than extroverts and of course, we are better for a job if we don’t have to interact but we can develop this skills.