Research outline

INTRODUCTION:  With the population of the world growing rapidly, the amount of human interaction is also increasing at a staggering rate.  People are being forced into closer quarters causing the amount of connections to increase.  After all, all humans love to make connections with other humans.  Whether a business connection or a very personal connection, they are all important.  With this increase comes and increase in the diversity of people’s personalities.  Some people are more removed from society while others thrive on interaction and cannot lead a normal life without it.  Throughout history many leaders and successful businessmen have been both introverts and extroverts. 

THESIS: Introverts, however, have a greater chance of raising their social status and being successful in the long run than extroverts.

BODY: Mohandas Gandhi was a very influential leader in India.  He led his whole movement based on the idea of a peaceful revolution.  Through fasting and peaceful protesting he was able to change the direction of an entire nation.  Gandhi was in many ways an introvert.  I will look further into his personality and what he was able to do as a leader due to his personality.

BODY: Mother Teresa was a very shy and soft-spoken nun.  Many were surprised when they met her that she was able to make as large of an impact as she did.  She ministered and looked after the poor and sick for over 45 years.  She was able to make an impact simple because of her charitable ways.  Through her great acts of kindness she won multiple peace awards and quickly gained international success.

BODY: Warren Buffett is an extremely successful investor and philanthropist.  He is widely regarded as one of the most successful men in the world.  He also has an introverted personality.  He is known to be very reserved and shy.  Many people say this is one reason he is so successful as an investor because he has such a cautious personality, he has an eye for the right and the wrong time to invest.  He is almost completely giving away all his riches to various charities with about 83% going to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation (Bill Gates also has an introverted personality) and is leaving almost none for his children to inherit. 

ORGANIZATION:  I plan to deeply explore the personalities of these three introverts, what made them so successful, and how they got to the point of success.  I plan to explore their lives and show how they would not have achieved as much success if they had different personalities. If I feel that the paper is lacking I will add another example of a successful introvert (Joe DiMaggio, Hillary Clinton).

CONCLUSION:  Recap what was said in the introduction.  Talk about the differences between introverts and extroverts.  Mention what about an introverted personality makes them successful.