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Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate? Who growls or scowls or grunts or winces when accosted with pleasantries by people who are just trying to be nice?
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Extroverts are energized by people, and wilt or fade when alone. They often seem bored by themselves, in both senses of the expression. Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially "on," we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: "I'm okay, you're okay—in small doses."
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In our extrovertist society, being outgoing is considered normal and therefore desirable, a mark of happiness, confidence, leadership. Extroverts are seen as bighearted, vibrant, warm, empathic. "People person" is a compliment. Introverts are described with words like "guarded," "loner," "reserved," "taciturn," "self-contained," "private"—narrow, ungenerous words, words that suggest emotional parsimony and smallness of personality. Female introverts, I suspect, must suffer especially. In certain circles, particularly in the Midwest, a man can still sometimes get away with being what they used to call a strong and silent type; introverted women, lacking that alternative, are even more likely than men to be perceived as timid, withdrawn, haughty.
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We tend to think before talking, whereas extroverts tend to think by talking, which is why their meetings never last less than six hours.
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Sarah EAnother wonderful article from the Atlantic. Introduction to introversion for those who don't quite understand it (or themselves).
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Extroverts have little or no grasp of introversion. They assume that company, especially their own, is always welcome.
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Luvien AzureThe habits and needs of a little-understood group
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Clair ChingThe habits and needs of a little-understood group
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Elizabeth TScience has learned a good deal in recent years about the habits and requirements of introverts. It has even learned, by means of brain scans, that introverts process information differently from other people... introverts are people who find other people
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gBrt69ur p8FEvjdHO tom, jak zůstávají introverti často nepochopeni extrovertní částí populace.
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Maggie Wolfe RileyThis made me wonder - I've always thought of myself as an extrovert, but I fit an awful lot of the introvert characteristics in this article, too. Can't I be a little of both? I don't think I should have to choose sides!
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Add Sticky NoteSecond, when you see an introvert lost in thought, don't say "What's the matter?" or "Are you all right?"
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Brennan O'KeefeIn contrast, after an hour or two of being socially "on," we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. It does not call for medi
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Naomi BIntroverts are not necessarily shy. Shy people are anxious or frightened or self-excoriating in social settings; introverts generally are not. Introverts are also not misanthropic, though some of us do go along with Sartre as far as to say "Hell is other
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E KisslingBest definition of introvert ever: «introverts are people who find other people tiring»
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Extroverts are easy for introverts to understand, because extroverts spend so much of their time working out who they are in voluble, and frequently inescapable, interaction with other people.
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Peter Thttp://tr.im/jFEo This article provides so much insight in what I am, a true to heart introvert... [from http://twitter.com/peterto/statuses/1610941402]
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Yvonne FrindleDo you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties a
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Female introverts, I suspect, must suffer especially. In certain circles, particularly in the Midwest, a man can still sometimes get away with being what they used to call a strong and silent type; introverted women, lacking that alternative, are even more likely than men to be perceived as timid, withdrawn, haughty.
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