Talking is 70% personality and 30% idea.
Writing is 70% idea and 30% personality.
I’m certainly daubing with very broad brush strokes here. But this is just the way i like it! Squinting at the sketch and feeling pleased. The balance is there and it seems to hold good when ‘viewed from way out in space’.
Although……
“Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance”
― Albert Maysles
I like to write in order to present and set things out as i want them.
If i did attempt to speak about these things, justice would not be done. Too many ideas and correspondences would assail me at the same time and my mind would creak to a halt in protest. I would grasp at one thing and then realise that there are other things that need to be said before that. The message would be garbled and I would split into two. One rambling and the other watching the rambler.
The goal is to be natural, but frustratingly, to think about ‘it’ or try to be it, is to become the opposite.
The civilised world; Our backdrop, framework, teacher and rewarder, prizes ‘talking’ above all else. If a person can present well then they can name their own price.
Strong presenters have a large audience and influence, because generally people are drawn to and fixated on personality, before events or ideas.
This is just the way it is though. What those ‘extrovert talkers’ gain, in ‘worldly’ success, influence and attention, they lose in limited insight, lack of self-awareness and ‘difficulties’ when the light of attention necessarily moves on to the next eager recipient.
There is a part of me that really casts doubt on anyone who can appear totally comfortable in our modern ‘civilised’ society. There may be some jealousy in this though. Is it the introverts dream to join the other side? The grass does seem greener over there and oh how liberating to have such a natural ease!
I do feel at ease in the ‘natural’ world though and perhaps the veneer of facsimile is just very strong in our modern world and people are only ‘faking it ‘til they make it’.
I wonder if it is possible to be a creative extravert?
And here we are with even broader brush strokes! With any sketch though, you need to rough it out as simply as possible, before anything else can be fleshed out.
The question might then be, where is this ‘creative well spring?’, (if it exists anywhere)
Surely it must lie ‘within’; Accessible via introspection.
The introvert then, is doing the ‘hard and dangerous’ work; Toiling in the depths, flirting with madness at the ‘coal face’, bringing up the ‘bounty’, into the cold light of day.
The ‘extraverts’ take this stuff and run with it! They are the ‘empire’ builders; The ‘good-word’ spreaders. As long as all that proceeds bears their own personal stamp though!
I do apologise. I have been divisively focussing on obvious polarities for a little too long.
Of course, the only strait path lies just right along where two such opposites meet; The place of ‘balanced tension’ and the only area where ‘something’ can actually happen.
