Jeb, the introvert

“I’m an introvert,” he said.

His host, NADA chairman Forrest McConnell, had asked Bush to tell the 4,000 assembled car salesmen something they didn’t know about him, and McConnell seemed surprised by the answer.

“Well, because I’ve overcome it,” Bush continued. “And I would rather read a book than go out and get in a Conga line and go dancing. But I learned that in order to make your case, or in order to serve or in order to advance a cause, you have to connect with people. And you can’t connect with people if you’re back in the corner reading a book. You have to engage with people, look ’em in the eye, connect with them on a human level, understand where they’re coming from before you get a chance to lay out your plan, right?”