Lee Ann Lambert has a review of a new article in the February 2009 of the Oprah magazine. In an article titled How to Get Lucky, the main idea ispeople determine their own good fortune. Sound a little like the Law of Attraction? It’s also very related to sales success.
Don’t top salespeople make their own luck? And we already know that some of the top salespeople are introverts. And some of the top salespeople are extroverts!
In my assessment, making your own luck has nothing to do with being an introvert or extrovert. In reality, if anyone has the upper hand, it would be an introvert. Let me comment on just one idea crucial in selling: making connections. The benefit in being an introvert about making connections is that inward focus helps us to be absolutely clear about the connection we want. We don’t usually go about just wanting to meet EVERYONE. If we want a new client, inside we get clear about who that client is; if we want a new job we know what we want in a job. That is making your own luck happen more clearly as opposed to go about – whoever I meet is great.
Lee Ann, being an introvert as well, has some excellent ideas of disagreement of the article and I posted my thoughts there as well.
Interested in speaking up for us?
Read, Are Introverts Lucky? Maybe No, Maybe Yes. You can comment here or comment there but please, let’s hear it for Introverts!
I read the blogpost and the comments.
I’m sorry. I come from the line of thought that say I am blessed. Sometimes, people think that is too religious of a stance, but I take it quite practically.
I have enjoyed my life and while I have many, many extroverted friends, I am THE one they cling to for 15-20 years as their best friend. I have been invited to many parties, involved with many business launches, career changes. I have owned my own business and after 22 years, am returning to school to finally finish a degree! I have had ups and downs, but I don’t feel that anything would have been better, if I stopped being so introspective.
I,for one, accepted myself long before I discovered a name for myself. Then and now, I feel blessed.
This made me think of an analogy: the introvert as a solid rock overtime instead of a rock that turns into sand.