Professor Wilson's Essay 'Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic'

Can you imagine a world without E = mc 2, the scientific method, or even Harry Potter? Society has directed us to believe that introversion is a negative quality. Some famous introverts include Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, and J. K. Rowling. If these influential people had been “diagnosed” with shyness and “treated” for it, they may not have had the opportunity to make the powerful contributions they gave to modern society.
The following is an excerpt from the essay “Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic” that describes the experiment Professor Wilson conducted.
“In an illustrative experiment, David Sloan Wilson, a Binghamton evolutionary biologist, dropped metal traps into a pond of pumpkin seed sunfish. The ‘rover’ fish couldn’t help but investigate — and were immediately caught. But the ‘sitter’ fish stayed back, making it impossible for Professor Wilson to capture them. Had Professor Wilson’s traps posed a real threat, only the sitters would have survived. But had the
I do not mind being around big crowds, but that doesn't mean I want to crash every party I am invited to. Having an active social life and extending my network of friends is relatively important to me, but it is not the most crucial thing. I have managed to strike an important balance between actively involving myself in my larger social network and spending quality time with a few intimate friends. Although I may not always be the conversation-starter or the "life of the party", I am generally a very outgoing individual, whether among friends or people I am less familiar with. I can easily relate to both extremes on the personality spectrum, and have an easier time delving in and out of the internal and external worlds. This may lead to feelings of confusion as many times I may feel like a “walking contradiction”, feeling one thing one moment, and another thing the