Devoxx Ukraine 2019: Safe-Awareness for Introverts (and why programmers suck at salary negotiations)

Devoxx Ukraine 2020 becomes a FREE ONLINE event 6-7th of November Kyiv, Ukraine Registration: I take a deep look at my (emotional) insides - which I suspect are a lot like yours - and introverts and conflict-avoiders everywhere. I don’t take verbal assaults or even verbal sparring well... if it’s outside of my ’comfort zone’ (I totally rock it in my zone). We’ll work through a common enough situation (an angry co-worker screws up and blames me), paying special attention to emotional states during the encounter. We then go through the post-analysis: getting emotionally jarred/hurt/wrecked, why I didn’t stand up verbally, stewing on the attack, and finally recovering. And then we’ll go through what *can* be done. We’ll look at some key insights into common introvert thinking patterns (verbal vs emotional processing) - and what you can do about it, how to bring your strengths to bear, and how to compensate for your emotional weaknesses. How to s