{"id":41894,"date":"2017-05-08T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=41894"},"modified":"2017-05-09T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:44:10","slug":"monday-night-introvertextrovert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2017\/05\/08\/monday-night-introvertextrovert\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night \u2013 introvert\/extrovert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just finishing the last of my late-night meetings after a really good day here in Herzogenaurach. I had a couple of really good experiences today and one major insight.<\/p>\n

Let me start with the second experience first. As I promised I went back to this wonderful Greek restaurant Syrtaki again tonight. It was pretty cool\u2026 I go in for a late run and manage to get there just at 9 PM. As I walked up to the restaurant my now Friend Saki was walking out into the street to see if I might be around. It was pretty funny. We had the best time he and his brother evangelos fed me four persons worth of the best Greek food I have ever eaten\u2026 Seriously. We talked for over an hour and a half\u2026 It was so cool connecting over good food, retsina and Ouzo. It was just the conversation I needed to have at this moment in our life\u2026 And I think at this moment in his life\u2026about connecting with people, Life plans, values and garlic! I really do hope I get a chance to come back here and visit these guys again<\/p>\n

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The second good experience actually happened in the earlier part of the day. I had some really good meetings with some very smart people at a clients factory\u2026 I gave a talk there and got to hear from many speakers describing some of their interesting technical issues. I absolutely love understanding a technical problem from somebody else’s perspective<\/p>\n

My big insight there was kind of interesting. I give a talk to A couple of hundred technical folks\u2026 and immediately after I had to run for a meeting. I didn’t get a chance to sit around and talk to the people after I gave my presentation. The insight I had was that I love’s speaking and telling stories but I love it much more when I can get feedback from people about what they liked and didn’t like about my talk. I find that when I don’t get that chance to talk to people afterwards I don’t get that “rush” that I love from public speaking.
\nThis is kind of interesting because I was just having this conversation with my good friend Lorenzo\u2026 He’s reading a book on introverts and extroverts. The fact that I need that closure from the audience afterwards means that I’m an extrovert\u2026 I guess I shouldn’t be surprised with that.<\/p>\n

I think it also means that I’m an egomaniac<\/p>\n

Is that so bad?
\nNight all, night Sam
\n\u2013 Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just finishing the last of my late-night meetings after a really good day here in Herzogenaurach. I had a couple of really good experiences today and one major insight. Let me start with the second experience first. As I promised I went back to this wonderful Greek restaurant Syrtaki again tonight. It was pretty cool\u2026 … Continue reading Monday night \u2013 introvert\/extrovert<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41917,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41894\/revisions\/41917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}