What especially excited me about Rob’s advice at … The Introvert's Path To Success: Learn To Act Like An Extrovert … is that it really affirms 2 facts we now know about how the brain...
1. grows dendrite cell connectors for what we do…
2. can adapt through the hard work of using more working memory than the basal ganglia’s typical habits.
How many of us can identify with Rob’s statement… “I've learned to live in an extroverted world and have even been called a "closet extrovert" because if someone brings up business as a topic of discussion I will end up talking for hours. But it always wears me out.” … especially the, “wears me out" part…
Like Rob, we can re-pattern the human brain by simply doing more of what we hope to become. Try it for fun and profit -- it works!
In the research paper at Fortune 1000 …executives leaned to the extroverted side at work but often to the introverted side at home. Does that describe you?
Check out Rob’s site at The Introvert's Path To Success: Learn To Act Like An Extrovert to see the scores and details of a fascinating study on this topic.
Rob speaks for many leaders when he said, “ Mrs. Businesspundit and I will go to a function and before we arrive she will be tired and I will feel fine. After two hours, she is pumped up and ready to stay late into the night while I am exhausted and ready to go home.”
We tire … as Rob does … whenever we step into new waters mentally or as the brain rewires – based on what we do. 
What interested me most about this post is the new understanding we have about the human brain. Rob said he was curious about how mental adaptability affects career paths. From a brain based perspective adaptability is a huge factor. Can you see why change often leads to feelings that many people find uncomfortable…? Can you see why people and organizations tend to avoid creative changes…?
Based on brain based research that supports it … I totally agree with Rob’s conclusion that … “Perhaps career success is less about where you fall on the extrovert/introvert line and more about how adaptable you are to the diverse group of situations you face as you climb the corporate hierarchy.” What do you think?
Your intrapersonal intelligence (or introspective intelligence) and interpersonal intelligence leans you at birth toward an introvert or extravert preference. You may come with more of one – but by doing practices that describe the other you gain amazing skill – just as Rob suggested so well. In fact you can grow multiple intelligences in the very way Rob proposes here – simply by acting like people smart in that intelligence – until your brain rewires itself for you to enter higher ranks in that area. What do you think?
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