Introversion vs Extroversion

Jessica Pan: So I worked at this advertising creative agency and they did this annual award ceremony where they award people for funny things or silly things, and I was sitting in the audience, obviously not wanting attention but waiting for my award because I had worked really hard at this job, I had stayed up late, I'd given so much to it. And so, you know, surface talk is like what you had for dinner and the weather and how you get to work and all these really basic things, and how deep talk is more about your fears and your desires and your wishes, and how a lot of people can spend almost their entire life in surface talk and how that's just not meaningful and that's not how you make true connexions with people. And one of things I learned about this is if you…I don't know, if there's a new person at work or someone you see around or if you're like a mum at the school gates and there's like another mum there that you like, why don't you just make the first move? And that actually helped me ask someone I kind of knew if they wanted to grab a coffee, because normally…typically they're actually really happy you asked and really relieved you asked because I feel like…I don't know what it's like in Australia, but I feel like here in England people are a bit closed off, they don't want to make that move compared to, say, maybe like the States or something. Sana Qadar: That's Jessica Pan, journalist, grintrovert, and author of Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come.