I know what you mean about taking your time with your writing. I’ve seen blogging experts talk about how they make sure to leave comments on at least ten other blogs each day, to drive traffic back to their own blog, where they’re blogging at least daily, sometimes several times a day. A typical blog post takes me an hour or two, and a short comment like this takes 15 minutes, so that would be a full-time job pretty quickly for me. Even as a full-time job, there’s no way I could churn out the number of posts some bloggers do; there aren’t enough hours in the day.

The Bible says: “Swift To Hear, Slow To Speak, And Slow To Wrath.”
James 1:19

Plato said: “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

I’ve often noticed that extroverts tend to get nervous around introverts. They don’t understand the silence and they feel like they have to find the cause. Hence the questions: “Are you okay?” “Why aren’t you having any fun?” “Are you mad at me?”

I notice a lot of quick, one-line comments on blogs. I think I spent 20 minutes on this one, finding the quotes, re-writing my thoughts, correcting punctuation… As an introvert, I want to be sure that my thoughts, when they ARE shared with others, are clear and understandable. Even now, as I center my mouse cursor on “Add your Comment”, I struggle with myself as to whether what I have written is both worth the effort it took for me to write it, and also worth the effort you’ll spend to read it.

Ah well. Click!

So true, I’d probably be rich also.

With the advent of MP3 players and in-ear headphones now it’s even easier to ‘detach’ at work — sometimes I’ll have them in with no music playing, using them just to dull the roar that seems to develop during the course of the day.