William Pannapacker on extroversion, introversion, and academic life: Screening Out the Introverts (Chronicle of Higher Education).
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
*
Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
*
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
*
I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
*
I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
*
L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
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comments: 3
Thanks for the share. Good read, though I'm a little disappointed that the author leaves the reader hanging in the end. The first half, general part of the article points out the danger of an extrovert dominant society; but the second half, the part that zooms in on academe seems to be only saying it's hard for introvert to survive and thrive. I thought the author would give a few arguments and warn against an academic system that selects against the introverts, but no such thing was spelt out. Instead, the author leaves a few open-ended questions and let readers judge for themselves whether or not they should connect the arguments for social situation as a whole to the specific case of academe.
Wow, great read. It was one grad school flashback after another. (Extreme shudder.)
Claire, I too wondered about what Pannapacker might suggest in the way of change. I mean, is there an alternative to the events of a campus visit taking place “in an unfamiliar location”? :)
The brief reference to “unwarranted enthusiasms” made me think too about how readily some people in academic life embrace new technologies. Is that sort of enthusiasm tied to extroversion? I have to get Susan Cain’s book.
Daughter Number Three, I’m glad that I’m reading Pannapacker’s piece now that it’s too late to have second thoughts.
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