Comments on: Introverts and Sports

By: JW

JW — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:41:32 +0000

‘It is a bitter irony to listen to extrovert’s first advice on how meet more people: “Why don’t you join a club?”’

Great observation.

By: unclegluon

unclegluon — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:40:00 +0000

I definitely had my weight lifting phase. It’s great exercise for someone who’s been outcast. It really soothes a burning inferiority complex like none other and blows off all that pent up tension!

Mostly cross training now. I still make room for deadlift, clean and press, and bench. None of that isolation stuff I used to do.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:33:40 +0000

Thank god for weight training!

By: unclegluon

unclegluon — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:50:35 +0000

I went to the all the pre-meet potlucks and tried to make friends whenever I was on cross country teams. I was sooner or later the outsider nonetheless. I too
was never outgoing and orthodox enough to make it. Same old story in other organizations.
It is a bitter irony to listen to extrovert’s first advice on how meet more people: “Why don’t you join a club?”

I eventually quit sports and spent all that extra time with my actual friends instead. I continue pursuing fitness(as opposed to sport) to this day.

By: JW

JW — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:10:19 +0000

Reading this entry reminded me of Ayn Rand’s Anthem, in which the word “I” is basically forbidden.
Aside from that, I think I never tried to join a sport activity or other team related activites when I was in school because of the very points that you made. I never felt comfortable working within a team, because I always noticed that even though the team was supposed to be focused on doing an activity of some kind, most of the people within the team tried to make it about socializing and being socially accepted within the team. So after a short while, I felt that everyone else had become friends and I was the outcast of the team because I didn’t talk as much and wasn’t outgoing like the rest of the group. I stood out like a sore thumb and felt like a reject. At that time, I didn’t know that I was introverted, though.