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Bookstores only offered negative value to me, outside of selling me what I wanted. Amazon allows me to purchase stuff without having to interact with another hu

by Kaiyou 7y ago

Bookstores only offered negative value to me, outside of selling me what I wanted. Amazon allows me to purchase stuff without having to interact with another human. Not everyone is extroverted and introverts get drained by human interaction. I don't even have to talk to a human when returning stuff.

tracker1 7y ago
The only way you get past that is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. It's worth it. It's a learned and reinforced behavior. Much like the child who only eats hot dogs and mac and cheese, and their parents never really made them do otherwise. Now they're in their 30's, living in their house and don't have a job, still eating junk food, but now they have diabetes.
- Kaiyou 7y ago
  No need, I already have a job and eat healthy. It's not that I can't do human interaction, it's that it drains me.
  - tracker1 7y ago
    My point was, the more you do it, the better you get at it... kind of like exercise or anything else. By avoiding interactions, it makes it worse over time.
    - Kaiyou 7y ago
      A battery won't get better by providing energy to some device. It gets drained. Similarly, introverts get drained by human interaction, so they need to recharge by staying alone. Extroverts on the other hand get drained by being alone and recharge in company of other humans. Telling an extrovert to not socialize with anyone for a year to get better at it is as much nonsense as telling an introvert to go socialize more to get better at it. That's not how it works. The more human interaction I can avoid, the better, so I'm recharged when I have to interact with people.
      - tracker1 7y ago
        A muscle doesn't grow stronger with atrophy... likewise, the mind doesn't grow stronger without challenge.
        Kaiyou 7y ago
        It's like trying to use a tool all the time expecting it to get better instead of wearing itself out. That's not how this works. No matter how good you get at human interaction it won't change the fact that it will drain you, if you're introverted.

by Kaiyou 7y ago

tracker1 7y ago

The only way you get past that is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. It's worth it. It's a learned and reinforced behavior. Much like the child who only eats hot dogs and mac and cheese, and their parents never really made them do otherwise. Now they're in their 30's, living in their house and don't have a job, still eating junk food, but now they have diabetes.

Kaiyou 7y ago
No need, I already have a job and eat healthy. It's not that I can't do human interaction, it's that it drains me.
- tracker1 7y ago
  My point was, the more you do it, the better you get at it... kind of like exercise or anything else. By avoiding interactions, it makes it worse over time.
  - Kaiyou 7y ago
    A battery won't get better by providing energy to some device. It gets drained. Similarly, introverts get drained by human interaction, so they need to recharge by staying alone. Extroverts on the other hand get drained by being alone and recharge in company of other humans. Telling an extrovert to not socialize with anyone for a year to get better at it is as much nonsense as telling an introvert to go socialize more to get better at it. That's not how it works. The more human interaction I can avoid, the better, so I'm recharged when I have to interact with people.
    - tracker1 7y ago
      A muscle doesn't grow stronger with atrophy... likewise, the mind doesn't grow stronger without challenge.
      - Kaiyou 7y ago
        It's like trying to use a tool all the time expecting it to get better instead of wearing itself out. That's not how this works. No matter how good you get at human interaction it won't change the fact that it will drain you, if you're introverted.