Many people may not be familiar with the name of Dale Carnegie, but when it comes to his sociological masterpiece, The Weakness of Human Nature, I believe most people will have a distinct memory.
If the book "The Weakness of Human Nature" cannot evoke your memories, then the "golden sentence" that "the human brain has only developed 10%" has become widely known with this book, I believe you must have heard it.
Sometimes, some words inadvertently change the way we think, and even if the sentence is ultimately proven wrong, our way of thinking does not change with it.
From today's perspective, or with today's people's knowledge reserves, most of them can already realize the limitations of the times of the book "The Weakness of Human Nature".
But unfortunately, the impact of this book on the public and the role of the entire evaluation system in society are still deeply rooted.
It is such a book that makes extroverts cheer for it, and introverts can only escape.
Some people say that Carnegie, whether it is "The Weakness of Human Nature" or "The Virtues of Human Nature", is just a hodgepodge of chicken soup, which is itself chicken soup literature.
But in fact, Carnegie's books are more like sociological books, and their keen touch of communication and inner abundance make his books have a certain degree of guiding significance.
But this guiding meaning often appears only in the extroverted personality, although its books do not explicitly point out that introversion is a defective personality, but in its extroversion, the promotion of communication, it is inevitable to fall behind this idea.
In the era after the Great Depression in the United States, the admiration for communication, the contempt for self-pity, and the encouragement of inner happiness in this book are in line with the current situation of American society.
For the American people who lived through the Great Depression, the inner riches in the book allowed them to enjoy suffering, and the connection between communication and success allowed them to find hope in the darkness.
But when the book crossed the ocean to China and was translated as "The Weakness of Human Nature", people naturally regarded what it admired as an advantage, and what it did not respect as a disadvantage.
Extroverts are often good at communication, and when they read this book, they all rejoice that the connection between communication and success is so strong that their personality has the basis for success in society.
In fact, if you read the book word by word, rather than just copying the golden sentences in it, you will inevitably realize that the book itself plays an inspiring role, not a rigorous academic result.
However, limited by the reading and thinking ability of the public at that time, people inevitably identified the extroverted personality as a necessary factor for success, and the corresponding introverted personality was doomed to be flawed and failed.
Never underestimate the general perception of the masses, which has influenced an entire generation of people and nailed introverts to a pillar of shame.
To this day, there are still many people who think that introversion is a defect.
"The Weakness of Human Nature", while solving the anxiety of one specific group, is spreading anxiety to another specific group, and the excessive admiration for communication and the contempt for self-pity in the book undoubtedly hurt the introverted group.
To this day, a person's introverted personality can easily be considered a defect, and even introverts themselves think that this is a "weakness of human nature".
This is actually contrary to our traditional culture, compared to the Western unrestrained culture, our traditional culture is more subtle, those communication skills in the books, the capture and manipulation of human nature, is actually contrary to our culture, can be identified as "intelligent and clever" speculative thinking.
But why is it that this book, which is contrary to traditional culture, has become so popular in China that it has been taken seriously by many entrepreneurs and managers?
The rise of each point of view has its own background of the times, and the rise of this book is in the initial stage of many entrepreneurs in China.
At this stage, entrepreneurs urgently need an ideological point of view that can manage employees and reduce employee requirements; and employees themselves lack awareness of promotions, promotions, and workplaces, so they can only hope for efforts.
In this case, there is a consensus between entrepreneurs and employees, so that the book is deeply respected, which will naturally lead to the rise of the book.
But in the process of this kind of admiration, it is difficult to say how many people have actually read this book, really read this book, or really understood the meaning of the book.
Although not everyone understood the book, many people who only read the fur began to identify introversion as a certain negative personality, and eventually this recognition gradually extended to various fields.
This undoubtedly leads to introverts being hindered everywhere in the job search and the workplace, after all, when the public believes that introversion is a negative personality, when a person shows introverted traits, he will inevitably face forced correction.
Even in the back-office department of many businesses, introverted personality is recognized as a negative personality, and the head of the department is likely to force people with this personality to change themselves.
In a certain period of time, the workplace has lost respect for diversity, and began to require employees to show an extroverted personality and show a high level of communication skills, even if this so-called "communication" ability is unconditional obedience and flattery to superiors.
Whether introversion is a character flaw starts to become irrelevant anymore, and when everyone thinks introversion is a character flaw, it inevitably becomes a flaw.
But now that most of us have a deeper ability to think, then at this point we rethink, is introversion really a flaw?
Introversion is a defect, and this kind of recognition and view has been constantly challenged in today's society, and many people are beginning to realize the error of this view.
From the overall point of view, the identification of introverted defects is still the mainstream view of society, and many people still hope that introverts can correct their personality traits.
But introverts who change their personality traits are essentially abandoning their own personality traits and looking for a way of life that is not suitable for them.
I think that introverts tend to have more sensitive and delicate traits than extroverts, which can be applied to the right work and can achieve more long-term development than extroverts.
But for introverted traits, it has a characteristic in itself, that is, it is difficult to take the first step in life, and the so-called first step is to promote from the grassroots to the middle level in the workplace.
The reason for this is that in the grass-roots positions in the workplace, there are often high mobility characteristics, and extroverts can get promotion opportunities through rapid relationship building.
For the "slow heat" trait of introverted personality, it is impossible to establish relationships in time in grass-roots work, and it is naturally difficult to stand out quickly.
But when the first step is taken, the leap from the middle to the top requires a "trustworthy" relationship to be established, and for introverts, it also enters the advantage track.
Therefore, introversion is not a character defect, introverts have positions suitable for their own play, although they are often late in the workplace, but full of staying power.
Influenced by the book The Weakness of Human Nature, many people identify introversion as a character flaw and extroversion as a necessary trait for success.
When this view is extended to the enterprise, the space for introverts to exert their abilities is naturally compressed accordingly, so that many introverts have to "pretend" to be extroverts.
However, this kind of "pretending" that is contrary to their own personality traits will not only make them lose their original competitiveness, but also let themselves enter a wrong track.
To this day, there are countless introverts who see this as a character flaw and try to change themselves with all their might, often ending up with nothing.
However, the public's positive and negative identification of personality is changing with the times, and it is better to change the environment in which they are in rather than changing themselves.
Introversion is not a defect, and the identification of introverted defects is irrational.