One anthropologist has said that the Neanderthals probably had a lot of trouble getting somebody to clean up the dirty dishes or other menial tasks. They were very exceptional individuals, moody, gifted and enthusiastic about whatever it is they wanted to do – and nothing else. This was their nature.

It is easy to guess when Homo Sapiens absorbed these genes into his gene pool. It’s the exact time that mankind took off and began to make progress. With Neanderthals you had a whole race of Michelangelos who never got anywhere and did not share information. They lacked regimentation.

With Homo Sapiens you had a bunch of highly regimented extroverted easily organized bipeds who were otherwise mentally about on par with a housefly. When 1 out of 5 of their children had Neanderthal traits combined with a large number of … well, highly organized plagiarists, they began to advance quite rapidly. Instead of all just standing around for 160,000 years murdering and raping they now had bright flashes of introverted brilliance in their midst. These were the guys making the superior flintheads, superior bows, plows and fire kilns that they shamelessly ripped off and disseminated widely.

The first 99% of recorded history, no innovator was ever repaid for his innovation. Others around him steal it, implement it and usually tell people it was their idea. It is only in the last 100 years we have had any serious enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Without introverts, civilization would not exist. It would be a lot of mud huts with people eating their meat raw and charging other tribes to kill them and take their women. Like it was before Sapiens did this very thing to Neanderthals in Europe.

This calls to mind something Paul Goodman said: ‘Our society cannot have it both ways: to maintain a conformist and ignoble system and to have skillful and spirited men to man that system.’

Although it is kind of nice and does fullfill a basic need, I have to say the sex always feels very mechanic to me. There is no real love there. It feels cold and businesslike, without much pleasure.

I still visit prostitutes sometimes to fullfill the basic need. But in the end, it doesn’t really satisfy me and I would love to try and have a loving relationship with a woman who loves me the way I am. Which is quiet, not much outgoing and in need of alot of alone time. I guess like any other introvert. I am still looking around for a real and loving relationship, but it’s still very hard. Just felt like sharing.

I wasn’t bullied, but it just could be I was too involved with the-then current task at hand to notice what others were doing or saying. I didn’t care anything about socializing, but I also really didn’t know about it. I didn’t know there were activities that didn’t invlove solving problems or answering questions of some sort until I was in my late teens. Even then I just didn’t pay much attention to anything other than what I was focused on — like tunnel vision.

I’m 35 now and through different kinds of therapy have discovered a lot about the world I didn’t even know existed; you know, like that dumb question a lot of people tend to ask, “Have you been living under a rock?” when they discover you didn’t listen to a certain kind of music as a teenager. I could easily ask them the same question with more validity when they don’t know much about earth history, how to work a GIS program, or even tell the difference between limestone and granite. “What? You are the one who brought up rocks, Mr. Extro. Or did you think we all had a petrified fossil inside our head like you?”

Practice your craft folks, because doing what you love to do out weighs making lots of money doing things that make you miserable. I have 4 sesonal jobs within my craft of geology and paleontology. I love it because I can work on my own, but there is always someone I can consult if I need to, and they all ‘shop talk’ (more on work and less about societal things).

If anyone is looking for a good career for introverts, it is in the geology field or doing something within a museum (cleaning bones for assembly prep, picking bone/teeth fragments out of sediment, digging at an actual fossil site, digitizing records or mapping etc). Being a female isn’t always easy in a male dominated field like geology, but they appreciate us a bit more for showing up — similar to how math and physics clubs are always wanting to recruit more females.

In the end, it is all about form, not substance. You will find that people will appreciate you when they need you or they will pretend to … but after you solve their problems for them (that they cannot solve themselves) they will encourage you to move on.

Life is not a meritocracy. The good guys do not win. The best people are not rewarded.

Dr. Peter Lawrence of THE PETER PRINCIPLE demonstrated with research in over 5000 corporations that all meaningful work is accomplished by “transients.” These are people easily identifiable. They do not have social skills. They are never really accepted wherever they go. They are usually hired just long enough to solve serious problems and then are ejected by the group when the crisis has passed and the corporation can get back to doing what it usually does – collect money and process paperwork.

Dr. Lawrence said that frankly the life of transient people is incredibly hard. They must keep moving (contractors, frequent job changes) just to stay employed. He believed that people like this must become self-sufficient and work for themselves or they will find they will never be rewarded by the corporate system. Lawrence said that corporations are dominated by social athletes who are otherwise useless … when they get in serious trouble they hire contractors to come in and rescue them by doing brief stints of real work. Dr. Lawrence believed that ultimately, our entire civilization is built on the backs of these people, who are never acknowledged.