Susan Cain: The power of introverts | Video on TED.com

Susan Cain: The pow­er of intro­verts | Video on TED.com.

As some­one who would describe her­self as nat­u­ral­ly more intro­vert­ed, I real­ly love this video high­light­ing the pow­er of intro­verts in a cul­ture that tends to val­ue extro­ver­sion. This video goes along with a long list of arti­cles I’ve read over the past few months exam­in­ing collaboration/group work ver­sus the idea of the lone design­er.

I pre­fer the bal­ance of autonomous work and group work for which Cain is advo­cat­ing. I also agree with Cain’s view on the ben­e­fit of allow­ing par­tic­i­pants to brain­storm on their own before dis­cussing ideas in a group set­ting.

I love how I have been able to work more in groups over the past year and a half. I craved that when I was a lone­ly graph­ic design­er in an office lack­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive oppor­tu­ni­ties. How­ev­er, I still val­ue hav­ing the chance to work on my own. Like most things, it’s about bal­ance.