Introducing yourself.

I have always experienced difficulty in introducing myself. Professionally or socially I have always struggled with it. One might think, why is it such a challenge. it might sound stupid to a lot of them. but yeah, i always wondered about how can i describe myself and my experience in those couple of minutes, in those few words.. its not about what others would think of me, but its about not being able to package myself in that moment when i have to introduce myself.
I have been tossing with this question for a couple of years, but i have gained some recent insight into it while i was reading eckhart tolle's 'new earth'. in page 28, he writes the following.
" The 'I' embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. what you usually refer to when you say 'I' is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by vocal cords or the thought of 'I' in your mind and whatever the 'I' has identifed with".

It sure might sound complex when you read the first time, but when i read that again and again, and again, i found meaning in what he explains as the monstrous act of reductionism...introductions typically require you to reduce youself in a few words, and thats all what you are known to someone who is unknown.
with every passing day of our life we are adding something to us as a person, its a different you every day, with new thoughts, new information, new vision, new hopes, new emotions. bottomline is: you are more than what you think you are, more than 'I'.