Blog post #8 responding in your journal to "caring for your introvert"

My roommates and I have actually talked a lot about if we are introverts and extroverts, I am an extrovert. I really enjoyed this essay because my roommate and best friend is an introvert and when I first met her I did think that she didn't like me and that she was a little arrogant. She just isn't one that likes to have small talk is what usually happens when you first meet a person. It was beneficial for me to read this to learn more about that personality type. I was a little offended by the essay just because it talked about how extroverts talk 98% content free. I think that there are definitely different ends of the spectrum with these personalities. I am an extrovert but I can still have content filled, deep conversations with people.

Blog post #7 responding in your journal to "The beguiling truth about beauty"

In paragraph 5 the author says, "Our brains have a built in hot-or-not meter that never stops gathering data." I thought of this statement in two different ways. I feel like I have a hot-or-not meter for myself, how I feel about myself that day and how high or low my confidence is. It also says in this paragraph that self-judgements shift like weather on a spring day. I find this to be true because I definitely change my mind about how I feel about myself or how confident I feel based on my outfit, my make up (or lack thereof), my acne, how much sleep I got, and how much time I had to get ready. This changes daily! I also think people can have a hot-or-not meter for other people. How you look at people when you first meet them, or even when you first see them you make a judgement on how attracted you are to them and you put them in 1 of 2 categories, friend or could possibly be more than friends in the future. I definitely agree with that statement in the essay, in two ways.