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This document summarizes a Toastmasters meeting. It introduces the typical agenda which includes prepared speeches, table topics, and evaluations. It then discusses how the speaker identifies as a hardcore introvert, detailing their social anxiety and preference for solitude over social activities. The document continues by addressing misconceptions about introverts, noting how introverts can be very successful even if they prefer solitary activities over socializing. It emphasizes that introverts and extroverts simply respond differently to external stimuli and both personality types have value.

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TMOD Script

This document summarizes a Toastmasters meeting. It introduces the typical agenda which includes prepared speeches, table topics, and evaluations. It then discusses how the speaker identifies as a hardcore introvert, detailing their social anxiety and preference for solitude over social activities. The document continues by addressing misconceptions about introverts, noting how introverts can be very successful even if they prefer solitary activities over socializing. It emphasizes that introverts and extroverts simply respond differently to external stimuli and both personality types have value.

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Thank you, TM Vasu

Its my pleasure to be the TMOD today and before I begin with today’s theme, let me explain the
agenda of the meeting to guests and everyone who is present here. The Toastmasters session is
divided int three segments-

The prepared speech segments.

The table topic segment

And the evaluation or the feedback segment.

Now I call upon the General evaluator

I would like to know

How many of you get very excited when a party plan gets cancelled?

And I would like know why you felt excited when plans got cancelled

Well, feel the same way. I identify as a hardcore introvert and have been like that all my life. I find a
lot of activities to be very difficult which other people do instinctively, like making a phone call- I am
scared to even talk to the customer care, thinking they might laugh at me. Obviously, I am a loner at
parties, I sit in a corner, fake smiles and just slightly move my body every now and then to pretend
that I am having a great time. And before joining XIMB, my constant question to everyone was, can
introverts also do an MBA? Even though one year has passed and I have become somewhat
comfortable in having so many people around me, I still freak out when someone asks me to
introduce myself. I honestly wonder how people have the energy to talk all day and party all night. I
am the kind of person who gets excited by books, who eats alone in a restaurant and go on solo trips
too talking to anyone for days on end. I am naturally a nervous person, don’t like to talk much,
instead I like to listen to other people talk. And I can go on and on about what my social anxiety
makes me do every day but now let’s hear our speakers for the prepared speeches. First, we have
Vasu who is giving his L4P1 speech today. I call upon Toastmaster Krishna to lay down the objectives
for the speech.

Thank you, TM Krishna

Now I welcome TM Vasu to present his speech.

Before we move the next speaker, I would like to ask the timer if the speaker has qualified

Our next speaker is DTM Smita who is giving her

And her evaluator will be Rashi to lay down the guidelines of the evaluation

Its feels really encouraging to see our friends come back to the stage again and again, give speeches
after speeches and see themselves improve. Isn’t that why we joined Toastmasters in the first, to
shed our fears, to share our ideas and to be more confident. I joined this platform to find my own
voice, because I was tired of being so introverted all the time. That brings me to the question- who is
an introvert really? The common definition is a person who does not have many friends, who is the
quiet person found in the corner of the room, and sometimes is labelled as boring. But that is not
how the word is defined- introversion is not being shy, its how you respond to external stimulus.
Introverts are at their best when they are alone, they are more productive and more creative in their
own company. Whereas extroverts get energised by having people around them. They perform best
when they are in groups. We have so many examples of introverts who are so successful today, take
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook – if you have watched the movie the social network you
would know that he created Facebook in the confines of his hostel room- and isn’t it ironic that
someone who doesn’t like to talk to people created a social network. And this should clear a lot of
our misconceptions itself- that introverts don’t hate people; in fact, they can be the make the most
interesting people. Its, just that perform in a different way that the world needs to be more
accepting towards.

With that lets move on to our favourite segment that is the table topic segment and I invite TM
Shalini to take it forward:

Around 40% of the world population is formed by introverts. But lately the distinction between the
two personality types has been blurring and it is widely accepted that we all have some introversion
and some part extroversion. Although we tend to lean more towards one trait. The problem with our
society is it rewards the outgoing person and biases against the introverts. Our education systems
are also built this way, they try promote group work, promote participating in each and every
extracurricular activity. And introverts are made to feel guilty about not meeting those standards.
Albert Einstein once said- if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole it is
stupid. Its important that each person is given his own conducive environment to show their talent.
And for introverts it is solitude, they get their best ideas when they withdraw from the group.

The best inventions and works of art have come from people who sat by themselves, focusing on
their minds instead of other people. They make the best poets, the best businessmen, the best
lovers, they are the best listeners and more considerate towards others because they realise the
power of silence. And that exactly is the power of introverts- the power of solitude.

I would now handover the stage to the general evaluator who can take the rest of the session
forward.

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