Would you Hire Sir Isaac Newton, the Introvert?

Written by Nancy R. Fenn


I've been looking forward to writing this article because Sir Isaac Newton personifies some ofrepparttar outstanding introvert characteristics that you can learn to prize in yourself, your introverted child or your introverted lover. If you're an employer, you can also learn to identify two of these qualities in job interviews to your advantage. Introverts make terrific employees. These arerepparttar 104904 qualities: Sir Isaac Newton could concentrate like a Concentratin' Fool. He loved his dog Diamond. And he was a modest man. He had these three things in common with most introverts.

Sir Isaac Newton was born in 1642 in England. He is considered by some to berepparttar 104905 most brilliant man that ever lived. Other contenders are Mozart and Goethe. Newton is credited with developing calculus and discoveringrepparttar 104906 Laws of Gravitation andrepparttar 104907 Laws of Motion (more correctly,repparttar 104908 "Three Laws of Motion underlying Classical Mechanics"). You probably learned in school at aboutrepparttar 104909 same age as he discovered these laws that an apple fell on his head which got him thinking. Asrepparttar 104910 story goes, he wondered whyrepparttar 104911 apple fell andrepparttar 104912 Moon didn't. His 23rd year was a phenomenon, an Annus Mirabilis. Later he also wrote Principia Mathematica in 1868-87 and Optics in 1704.

Young Newton was a real seeker. As a young person he wrote in his notebook, "Amicus Plato; amicus Aristoteles; magis amica veritas" which means "Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, butrepparttar 104913 truth is my best friend." Latin wasrepparttar 104914 language in whichrepparttar 104915 educated class in Europe communicated with one another.

Newton was recently inrepparttar 104916 news because of his Bibles. Like most introverts, Newton read a lot and one ofrepparttar 104917 books he read a lot wasrepparttar 104918 Bible. He had at least thirty of them. I've been running a book survey on my website for introverts. One ofrepparttar 104919 questions I ask is whether people dog ear and write in their books. Fromrepparttar 104920 results of my survey, most people wouldn't dream of it but Newton's answer would be "yes".

In a recent interview with Patricia L. Paddey of Bible Network News, Dr. Stephen Snobelen, assistant professor ofrepparttar 104921 history of science and technology at University of King's College in Halifax, said, "We actually have 30 of [Newton's] personal Bibles at Trinity College, Cambridge that can be examined…. His personal Bible that he used for looking up references is a very small, hand-held Bible. That is a remarkable artefact [sic] to handle physically, because you can actually seerepparttar 104922 dog-eared pages. You can seerepparttar 104923 soiling. You can see this physical testimony of a lifetime." Dr. Snobelen is one of only a handful of academics worldwide who now study [Newton's Bibles and other non scientific manuscripts] for insights into his theology. These papers were willed to Cambridge University byrepparttar 104924 economist John Maynard Keynes in 1946.

Newton was an intense reader. "While it is possible that some dog-earing wasrepparttar 104925 work of subsequent owners," Snobelen continues, "it is evident fromrepparttar 104926 fact that most instances of it point quite precisely to passages of demonstrable importance to Newton thatrepparttar 104927 vast majority is his own. He used dog-ears not merely to mark pages but to alignrepparttar 104928 page corners with specific passages of interest (hencerepparttar 104929 fact that pages may have their corners turned down, up, or both)."

According torepparttar 104930 London Daily Telegraph, Newton was consumed by apocalyptic research and reluctantly predicted thatrepparttar 104931 world would end in 2060. "Thousands of Newton's papers, which had lain in a trunk inrepparttar 104932 house ofrepparttar 104933 Earl of Portsmouth for 250 years, were sold by Sotheby's inrepparttar 104934 late 1930s. John Maynard Keynes ... bought many ofrepparttar 104935 texts on alchemy and theology. But much ofrepparttar 104936 material went to an eccentric collector, Abraham Yahuda, and was stored inrepparttar 104937 Hebrew National Library. It was among these documents thatrepparttar 104938 date was found."

Sir Isaac Newton was an INTJ introvert. There are eight different types of introverts, according to Keirsey Personality Theory and Myers-Briggs Temperament Inventory, both based onrepparttar 104939 Jungian approach to personality interpretation. Newton was an INTJ Introvert, calledrepparttar 104940 Mastermind. This is a rare one per cent ofrepparttar 104941 population according to estimates byrepparttar 104942 Keirsey Temperament Theory.

According to Keirsey, "Masterminds approach reality as they would a giant chess board, always seeking strategies that have a high payoff, and always devising contingency plans in case of error or adversity. Torepparttar 104943 Mastermind, organizational structure and operational procedures are never arbitrary, never set in concrete, but are quite malleable and can be changed, improved, streamlined. In their drive for efficient action, Masterminds arerepparttar 104944 most open-minded of allrepparttar 104945 types. No idea is too far-fetched to be entertained-if it is useful." Other famous INTJ introverts are Niels Bohr and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Get Free Publicity by Pushing the Media's "Hot Buttons"

Written by George McKenzie


Early in my TV career, a consultant fromrepparttar Magid Company,repparttar 104903 people who practically invented TV news research, told me something that helped me enormously throughrepparttar 104904 years.

'There are no dull stories,' she said. 'Just dull approaches to interesting stories.'

It's true. And it's critical to remember if you want to get free publicity from any working journalist in any medium.

All journalists want information that's 'newsworthy.' But just how do you 'make' a story newsworthy?

Here's an example.

One of my customers, James Wilson, recently sent me a draft of a press release he'd written and asked me to critique it for him.

He was hoping to generate some media interest in a report he'd authored about writing copy for newspaper ads.

He said he wanted to strengthenrepparttar 104905 lead sentence inrepparttar 104906 body ofrepparttar 104907 copy, which read something like:

'Newspaper ads can be a powerful and productive part of anyone's marketing campaign...'

That's definitely true, I pointed out...but it has ALWAYS been true. An editor would be likely to ask, 'What's new about that?'

Reporters, producers and editors are always looking for 'news value' in a press release. To get a positive response, your release has to say 'I've got news for you!'

So I suggested a slightly different approach.

Here'srepparttar 104908 revision I sent back to him:

(Headline) It all 'Ads' Up--Newspaper Classifieds Are Back

(Subheadline) Whether you're selling jewelry or jalopies, classifieds are a potent promotional vehicle for small business -- but only if they've gotrepparttar 104909 'write stuff.'

(Body) Inrepparttar 104910 dash to board what looked likerepparttar 104911 'new economy' gravy train a few years ago, millions of business owners switched advertising dollars away from traditional ads in newspapers.

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