Both introverts and extroverts are well-represented in the upper echelons of our profession. You don't have to be a glib chatterbox or party animal to succeed at architecture. Salesmanship is important to making a practice succeed, but there are lots of different ways to sell. More importantly, you have to have something TO sell, and then you have to perform.
What you DO have to be is really good at what you do, passionate about it, genuinely concerned about your clients, and able to communicate your ideas effectively to other people in some form. Also, be INTERESTING. What you should NOT be, regardless of whether your personality type tends toward inward- or outward-focus, is boring, weird, or difficult. Cultivating memorable eccentricity is one thing, being bizarre, frustrating to work with, incomprehensible, combative, or whatever is quite another. You'd be amazed at how many people aren't able to jump even this low hurdle.
FYI. Andy Warhol was the shy introvert and Dalii was the gregarious extrovert, not the other way around.
Andy was shy and didn't speak much but he managed to go to gallery openings just to hang out. Being visible and being around was enough. he would often just give one word answers to interviewer questions. So it is possible to be introverted and market yourself.
Actually I too stand corrected. Both were shy but Dali was instructed by his uncle to Act extroverted. Dali did just that to disguise his mortification. Every day he went through the motions of being an extrovert and, eventually, he became celebrated as the most extroverted, fearless, uninhibited and gregarious personalities of his time
So one decided keep in line with his introverted personality, and the other pretended to be extroverted. Different styles for the same temperament.
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http://chronicle.com/article/Screening-Out-the-Introverts/131520/
Both introverts and extroverts are well-represented in the upper echelons of our profession. You don't have to be a glib chatterbox or party animal to succeed at architecture. Salesmanship is important to making a practice succeed, but there are lots of different ways to sell. More importantly, you have to have something TO sell, and then you have to perform.
What you DO have to be is really good at what you do, passionate about it, genuinely concerned about your clients, and able to communicate your ideas effectively to other people in some form. Also, be INTERESTING. What you should NOT be, regardless of whether your personality type tends toward inward- or outward-focus, is boring, weird, or difficult. Cultivating memorable eccentricity is one thing, being bizarre, frustrating to work with, incomprehensible, combative, or whatever is quite another. You'd be amazed at how many people aren't able to jump even this low hurdle.
FYI. Andy Warhol was the shy introvert and Dalii was the gregarious extrovert, not the other way around.
Andy was shy and didn't speak much but he managed to go to gallery openings just to hang out. Being visible and being around was enough. he would often just give one word answers to interviewer questions. So it is possible to be introverted and market yourself.
Actually I too stand corrected. Both were shy but Dali was instructed by his uncle to Act extroverted. Dali did just that to disguise his mortification. Every day he went through the motions of being an extrovert and, eventually, he became celebrated as the most extroverted, fearless, uninhibited and gregarious personalities of his time
So one decided keep in line with his introverted personality, and the other pretended to be extroverted. Different styles for the same temperament.
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