Hello and welcome to the the the travelling introvert wantto talk about some habits that a lot of introverts might have. And to behonest, most of the time they are misunderstood. Like most things aboutintroverts, there's a lot of misinformation out there or people makeassumptions about things. For example, if you work in an office you might wantto have lunch by yourself and your coworkers might see you as being unfriendlyor not being part of the team because you wish to recharge by having lunch byyourself. Yet I know so many introverts tell me about how they go in their carto eat lunch or go in their car and drive around the corner so people don'tcome and knock on their window in the car.I myself used to go and sleep in my friend's car to startwith. I used to work very close to where I lived so I would walk home, nap andgo back to work. I'd even feel better off not eating food because I napped. Andthen when I worked a little further away, I would actually ask to borrow myfriends car keys because it was nice and warm and sunny so I could go and sleepin their car for half an hour. But a lot of people see this as being rude orwhy wouldn't you want to eat with the team or with other people?It's not that we don't want to, it's just normally that is areally good time for introverts to recharge their battery. Then there's if youare working in remotely right now, wanting to sometimes just not have yourcamera on for zoom calls, introverts and extroverts all people talk about zoomfatigue. Do you remember the world before zoom? In the world before zoom we hadconfidence calls. At no point was video a thing, right?You'd have this thing in the middle of the table andeveryone would dial in using their phone and you would have a conference call.Yes. The bad side was people would talk over each other but it was half asexhausting as being on video all the time. So why is it now that people thinkit's rude or you're not paying attention when you are not on video in a zinc orit's just like being on the phone. It's almost like we've forgotten how to dothat.It doesn't mean you're unsociable, it's just some peoplewill find that it is a lot of stimulation looking at all the faces or justlooking at yourself for hours on end. Then there's wearing headphones at work.If you are in an office you might use headphones to cut out the noise to helpyou concentrate and do deep work. Or just maybe you just like listening tomusic. It helps you get into the groove of working more.Again, this can be misconstrued as you not wanting to talkto people and not wanting people to interrupt you because you're too good totalk to everyone. But reality is probably just a really good way to help youfocus. So these are just a couple of things that we talk about when peopleassume certain things about things that introverts might do to help themrecharge. Now, it doesn't make us rude. It just means that we know what we needto keep our batteries charged and people should respect that and maybe just aska question, but not in a derogatory or accusing way.Then there's also sort of like small talk and wanting to goout for drinks after work. Yes, sometimes that might be great, but if we'vejust spent 8 hours in and out of meetings around people and then you want us togo and spend another two or 3 hours talking and drinking with people, it mightbe too much. Our battery might already be drained and spending more time withyou would drain our battery further. So we don't necessarily want to do that.And a lot of people say...

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