personality
Tim’s Tips: Shakin’ it Introvert Style
Shakin’ it introvert style Inside Higher Education December 11, 2012 – 8:00pm By Liz Stockwell In the early nineties, when aerobics classes with canned music and fancy spandex fashion were all the rage, there was no way I’d ever be caught dead participating in such a group sweat fest. From what I’d heard about aerobics [...]
Tim’s Tips: Do You Measure Up?
Overcoming Academic Perfectionism Do You Measure Up? Inside Higher Education December 5, 2012 – 3:00am By Kerry Ann Rockquemore It’s been quite a journey over the past five weeks of our collective work to overcome academic perfectionism. We calculated the costs of perfectionism, we learned what the cycle of perfectionism looks like and how to [...]
Tim’s Tips: Are You Over-Functioning?
Overcoming Academic Perfectionism Are You Over-Functioning? Inside Higher Education November 28, 2012 – 3:00am By Kerry Ann Rockquemore I recently received a frantic phone call from a tenure-track faculty member at a research university whom I’ll call Noel. I met Noel this last summer when she was in transition: she had been turned down for [...]
Tim’s Tips: Writing and Procrastination
Overcoming Academic Perfectionism Writing and Procrastination Inside Higher Education November 21, 2012 – 3:00am By Kerry Ann Rockquemore The past two weeks, I’ve invited you into a process designed to help you overcome your academic perfectionism. The first step was acknowledging the costs of perfectionism, including self-inflicted misery, lower productivity, and fewer publications. The second [...]
Tim’s Tips: Breaking the Cycle
Overcoming Academic Perfectionism Breaking the Cycle Inside Higher Education November 14, 2012 – 3:00am By Kerry Ann Rockquemore Last week, I launched this series on academic perfectionism based on a few core assumptions: 1) perfectionism is a pervasive problem for academic writers, 2) the culture of the academy exacerbates existing perfectionist tendencies, and 3) overcoming [...]
Tim’s Tips: The Costs of Perfectionism
The Costs of Perfectionism Inside Higher Education November 7, 2012 – 3:00am By Kerry Ann Rockquemore One of the most pervasive problems I see among academic writers is perfectionism. It’s so ubiquitous and manifests in so many ugly ways that I’ve decided to dedicate a five-part series to overcoming academic perfectionism. And yes, there’s a [...]
Tim’s Tips: Susan Cain-The Power of Quiet (RSA Short)
Susan Cain – The Power of Quiet (RSA Short) The world is full of noise and those that are the loudest are the ones we tend to follow but what about the quiet ones? Author Susan Cain shines a spotlight on introverts and reveals how over time our society has come to look to extroverts [...]
Tim’s Tips: An Introvert’s Thoughts on Being a Professional Speaker and Consultant
An Introvert’s Thoughts on Being A Professional Speaker and Consultant Inside Higher Education September 20, 2012 – 8:12pm Eric Stoller What do Mary-Kate Olsen (Ashley too), Albert Einstein, Socrates, Abraham Lincoln and I have in common? We’re all introverts as classified by the Myers Briggs personality type indicator (MBTI). According to the MBTI, introversion is [...]
Tim’s Tips: Clamorous Praise for “Quiet”
Clamorous Praise for “Quiet” Inside Higher Education May 8, 2012 – 8:20pm By Joshua Kim Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain Published, January 2012 Quiet will definitely be included in my list for the top nonfiction books of 2012. This is strong praise indeed, given that we [...]
Tim’s Tips: Screening Out the Introverts
April 15, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education Screening Out the Introverts By William Pannapacker Some years ago I joined my students in taking the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a test to determine personality type. It was an assignment in a course I was teaching on vocational exploration. (Note: May require subscription.) http://chronicle.com/article/Screening-Out-the-Introverts/131520/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
