As I always know, I’m an introverted person. No matter how hard I pretend to be talkative with people, deep in my heart, it only makes feel tired and want to stay further away from them. I believe every introverted person was more or less told that he or she should converse more with others and try to show themselves. Because that is the thing I have been telling since I could speak. Both my parents and I thought this is an encouragement that could help me better, being introverted is surely regarded as a weakness by everyone include me! Things are getting harder for me since I enrolled in Sauder, this is a place where everyone seems confident and fearless to give a speech in front of hundreds of people except me, also in group working, I was always the last who give my own opinion. That frightened me every day and I keep asking myself is Sauder a right place for me, am I belong here? I felt pathetic and even shameful for being an introvert myself.

And then comes that ob class, which Wayne played TED talk show to us, the name of that show is the power of introverts. The power? Introverts have any power themselves? That shocked me. Susan, the speaker clarified that introverts should not be shameful for being themselves, there’s actually something that they could do better than extroverts. She told the advantages of most of introverts, include work on their own, think independently and carefully doing things. Those are things I never thought about, I always looked on the bad sides of being introverts. At that point, I finally realized maybe I should accept myself and stop convert myself in a way that I don’t like at all.

Since then, I began not to worry about my introversion every day at night. Since I now don’t regard being introvert as a weakness of me, I’m more confident than before, I could look into other’s eyes when talking. It’s amazing that accepting my introversion actually makes me more extroverted. In group working, I believe it’s essential to find your role in it, I’m still looking for it but I believe it won’t take long.

Certainly, learning how to work with other is still important, but facing who you truly are is even more important. That is one of the best class I ever had.

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