Hi, I’m Joshua Kamara, and welcome to Quiet Momentum! Before Quiet Momentum, I wrote content focused on communication tips for those who struggled to find and exert their verbal bravado in this thing called “life”. Additionally, my content entailed personal experiences involving my communicative struggles and victories.

But what I didn’t realize was, in every written post, I was self-psychoanalyzing myself. Subsequently, self-psychoanalysis led to a deeper understanding of self, as I carefully examined my innate behavior, strengths, and weaknesses. In conjunction with my newfound discoveries, I learned that many others had the same innate behaviors, strengths, and weaknesses as I. The people in question, I would learn, are called introverts.

Naturally, that means I’m an introvert, too! Yet, why didn’t I already know this?? Let me explain –

Sure, I knew that all my life I had a propensity to be quiet, particularly in large groups. I also knew that I valued time alone, preferred a small close-knit circle of friends, and did not value taking center stage in most social settings. Overall, I knew I was slightly different from the masses. However, I didn’t know there was a label, “introvert”, for my personality type.

Upon discovery of spoken label, I plunged headfirst into the study of introversion, thereby learning more about myself. And what a learning experience this was, as things about me were beginning to make sense — like realizing my alleged quirks and differences were indeed normal, because as said earlier, there are many others who have the same personality traits as I. Yes, per different studies, extroverts outnumber introverts three to one. Yet still, I realized I wasn’t alone in this extroverted world. And so, those like individuals and I hail from what I call A Tribe Called Introversion.

While turning over stones, and learning more about myself and my tribe, I did not cease my writing endeavors. I continued to chronicle my communicative struggles and experiences but as an introvert in a seemingly extroverted world. I realized the content I was writing all along was for my people — the introverts — because I was sharing my communicative struggles and victories from an introvert’s perspective. After careful analysis of all that unfolded, Quiet Momentum was born.

The name Quiet Momentum is a nod to the quiet nature of introverts and supports the idea that one need not be the loudest, most flamboyant person to be seen and heard. Furthermore, the purpose of my brand is to share experiences and knowledge to optimize cognitive and communication skills for introverts.

But more specifically, optimization of noted skills for when we as introverts find ourselves in overstimulating situations such as —

A) Cognitive Duress:

• Impromptu encounters.
• Large-noisy environments.
• Being in the spotlight.

B) Communicative Duress:

• Public Speaking.
• Speaking in large-unfamiliar groups.
• Verbal conflict.

There’s beauty and strength in introversion. Yet, moments of cognitive and communicative duress compromise the exact beauty and strength I just deified. So, what’s the fix? My response: education and preparedness.

Via education, we can prepare ourselves for such hazards, thus mitigating the struggles of cognitive and communicative duress in this seemingly extroverted world – the outcome: quietly gaining momentum as introverts in a cognitive and communicative sense.

Shall we?

Kind regards,

Joshua Kamara