Extrovert or Introvert?
Over dinner about a month ago, I discovered that a dear friend is an introvert.
“An introvert!? But you give presentations, aren’t shy in the least, and you talk non-stop! If anyone, between the two of us, are introverts, it’s me, and I’m not because I took the Myers-Briggs test,” I said, befuddled.
Well, she had taken it too, and she tested as an introvert.
After we compared our E/I S/N T/F J/P’s, she had this to say: “There’s more to being an introvert than being shy. Many introverts aren’t shy, and there are some extroverts who are. For instance, I get up in front of hundreds of people and speak, but I really enjoy my time alone and if I’m at an event, I’m headed home by ten o’clock at the latest...I’m drained.”
I thought about what she said, I consider myself quiet and observant, but it pains me to write at home at my computer… alone. I would MUCH rather be somewhere (tropical island) with pen and paper in hand, surrounded by several hundred people, and write. I told my friend this.
“See! That’s just it! You draw from external sources, I draw from an internal source and can spend days in front of my computer alone.”
So I did a little thinking on the topic of introverts and extroverts and this is what I’ve come up with…I was a psychology major, so bear with me.
There are four types of people (outside of the 16 identified in the Myers-Briggs test): Introverted Introverts (II), Introverted Extroverts (IE), Extroverted Introverts (EI), and Extroverted Extroverts (EE). I will use myself as an example (the extrovert in me demanding that I do…by the way, I’m an IE, so I'll delve only so far)
I can stay up until two or three o’clock in the morning…ONLY if I’m attending a party. Subsequently closing the party down. If I’m at home, I’m out by 10:00 at the latest. (E)
I like to dine and movie-go alone (I)
I prefer to go to a coffee house/ restaurant/ bar to write (E)
I write (I) (stereotype…I know)
I like to be the center of attention (E)
I get to the center of attention by way of being mysterious, ie., quiet and observant (I)
I blog (E)
On the Meyers-Briggs test, say there were 15 questions that assessed your I/E, I scored 8 in Extrovert and 7 in Introvert, drawing a very fine line.
So, which do you think you are???
“An introvert!? But you give presentations, aren’t shy in the least, and you talk non-stop! If anyone, between the two of us, are introverts, it’s me, and I’m not because I took the Myers-Briggs test,” I said, befuddled.
Well, she had taken it too, and she tested as an introvert.
After we compared our E/I S/N T/F J/P’s, she had this to say: “There’s more to being an introvert than being shy. Many introverts aren’t shy, and there are some extroverts who are. For instance, I get up in front of hundreds of people and speak, but I really enjoy my time alone and if I’m at an event, I’m headed home by ten o’clock at the latest...I’m drained.”
I thought about what she said, I consider myself quiet and observant, but it pains me to write at home at my computer… alone. I would MUCH rather be somewhere (tropical island) with pen and paper in hand, surrounded by several hundred people, and write. I told my friend this.
“See! That’s just it! You draw from external sources, I draw from an internal source and can spend days in front of my computer alone.”
So I did a little thinking on the topic of introverts and extroverts and this is what I’ve come up with…I was a psychology major, so bear with me.
There are four types of people (outside of the 16 identified in the Myers-Briggs test): Introverted Introverts (II), Introverted Extroverts (IE), Extroverted Introverts (EI), and Extroverted Extroverts (EE). I will use myself as an example (the extrovert in me demanding that I do…by the way, I’m an IE, so I'll delve only so far)
I can stay up until two or three o’clock in the morning…ONLY if I’m attending a party. Subsequently closing the party down. If I’m at home, I’m out by 10:00 at the latest. (E)
I like to dine and movie-go alone (I)
I prefer to go to a coffee house/ restaurant/ bar to write (E)
I write (I) (stereotype…I know)
I like to be the center of attention (E)
I get to the center of attention by way of being mysterious, ie., quiet and observant (I)
I blog (E)
On the Meyers-Briggs test, say there were 15 questions that assessed your I/E, I scored 8 in Extrovert and 7 in Introvert, drawing a very fine line.
So, which do you think you are???
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