| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/2/2009 4:40:24 PM | ...predisposition. the natural orientation of being. an arrangement of mind ability with feeling facilities of a body. which personality respond for..between the sanctum of life and the world (relationship) of transformation. attitude show it self of face to an other.
introverts and extroverts share that human truth of facilitation. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/2/2009 4:53:31 PM | Speaking for the Extroverts.
We are very much misunderstood. We enjoy down time. We just don't need it. Extroverts find the quiet in the chaos. We enjoy being in the mix so we can be involved if we want to...not because we have too.
Extroverts listen but being a "constant talker" doesn't make you an extrovert. But we do enjoy converation and othen like to discuss life as it happens. Life is like a movie to us but in a movie it is rude to talk...but in life you can ask questions or make comments. "What was that guy thinking wearing only one green sock?"
It is indeed an orientation brought on by our upbringing. It is not easy for introvert and extroverts to stay together. It can happen but not easy.
Extroverts are fun. We don't minding going to the movies tonight unplanned. We see something exciting and we don't mind trying it out right now.
Extroverts are deep people. But we judge others on actions and not words. People rarely get deep with us because we seem happy so everyone assumes everything is perfect for us. Just because we don't let life slow us down doesn't mean we can't be hurt and that we don't care.
When they are in a jam people usually call us. Good...because we like to help. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/2/2009 8:41:02 PM | MSG 20---- yes i think you CAN be both...I HAVE to be an extrovert @work..you dont want some one HALF ass pumping on your chest and non assertive however by my nature I RELISH alone & quiet time ...going to eat by myself, traveling,shopping etc . Some people i know HAVE TO have someone or something going at all times and you just can't turn them off
I VANT TO BE ALONE :) | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/2/2009 9:07:23 PM | I am proud to be an introvert.
I can entertain myself! People do misunderstand me until they get to know me. They think I am a bit slow(retarded) till I carry on a conversation.
Then they say they find me intelligent. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/2/2009 10:43:27 PM | | I am an introvert, but it's b.s that introverts are "more intelligent" etc etc. I can't stand when people present something as fact that is beyond a generalization without attempting to back up that information. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/2/2009 11:16:33 PM | | Could it be possible that the introvert was once an extrovert who became the former through life experience? | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 12:41:15 AM | I looked into this many years ago, to try and help me with my relationships at work, I've always been the queen of inappropriate statements. I'm an MB type INTJ, and reading up on the other personality types has helped me try and relate (with varying degrees of success) to extroverts. My sister is an extrovert and we seem to have been able to eventually reach some kind of compromise. I understand that she feels hurt and rejected when I don't want to spend time with her and so I make my best effort to socialise when I just want to hibernate. She understands that I feel better on my own and makes her best effort not to get upset and feel rejected, hopefully she understands that me wanting to be alone has nothing to do with how I feel about her, I tell her often that I love her, she tells me often that she loves me too.
Occassionally we lose our tempers when we are frustrated
SIS: do you want to come to a gig Saturday ?
ME: I think I'm just going to relax at home ?
SIS: Thanks a bunch !
ME: I've had a hectic week, maybe we could do somthing else ?
SIS: OK, I'll come over for dinner instead.
ME: Cool
So neither of us have what we want, but we value each other's feelings and reach a compromise. We drive each other crazy sometimes, but it's important to remember what you value about each other instead of feeling resentful that someone doesn't understand you.
Extroverts and Introverts can get on, but it takes understanding and a lot of pateince on both sides. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 3:21:03 AM | Op-
You really DO need to use a link or at least quotes when you quote something.
Copy/pasting blogs from other sites as your own works is bad. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 3:40:43 AM | Yeah.
This is very inaccurate.
While there are many Introverts/Extroverts that fall into the description, there's possibly more that do not. Like myself for example.
In essense, I am introverted. However, I do really well with small talk, and interaction.
So well, that every employer I have had, quickly discovered my "talent" and advanced me for more interactive positions.
Though, I require alone time. Often, I reflect, work on some of my writting, induldge in a little computer graphics... Though, I am often amusing an audience of MSN buddies at the same time.
I like to think that there are many Extrovered Intorverts, like myself. Especially, found on such a website. 
You say that you are this specified Introvert that you describe, then why haven't you done enough -observing- to notice that your theory is inaccurate?
Either way, with the sheer volume of commenter's, you likely have enough people telling you so. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 4:21:53 AM |
So what to do with an introvert? First recognize that it’s not a choice, it’s not a lifestyle, and it’s an orientation.
Sorry, but I have to call bullshit on this one. I was an introvert for a very long time, and I made the conscious choice to become an extrovert. In addition to that, as happy as I thought I was as an introvert, it does not compare to the enjoyment I've received from being an extrovert.
Being an introvert for too long can turn a person into a pathological philosopher. This is not necessarily a good thing. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 4:31:59 AM |
My favorite question on that test, "Do you believe the best answer is one that can be changed easily?" That was a definite yes for me. I form opinions but there never rock solid and immoveable As new facts, evidence and insight are discovered, it must be analyized and the answer could change <--- "yeah that shows a narrow personality (sarcasim)"
I took the test tonight while i'm tired and scored an INTJ, though the last time I took the test months ago, I marked as an INFJ. Obviously, a difference based on my mood at the time. Long story short, introvert here, and at the very least, IN-J.
Now, I know that this quote is 2 years old, but I just read it for the first time, and wanted to comment on it, because I thought it was interesting.
When i read that specific question, it was a definite "No." for me. The reason being, I spend a lot of time contemplating things, running the facts through my head, and looking at it from every angle before I make a decision. I feel that if I spend that much time and effort making up my mind about something, I need a damn lot of support in the opposite direction to make me change my mind. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 4:39:16 AM |
Extroverts listen but being a "constant talker" doesn't make you an extrovert. But we do enjoy converation and othen like to discuss life as it happens. Life is like a movie to us but in a movie it is rude to talk...but in life you can ask questions or make comments. "What was that guy thinking wearing only one green sock?"
That's kinda the problem.
The first time an introvert hears a comment like that, it's probably cute/amusing/funny. But after hearing these random tangents of fluff over, and over, and over..... and over... and over again, it gets pretty annoying. At that point, the introvert would probably be more apt to think "I don't really give a f*ck, honestly. Do you EVER shut up???" Unfortunately, saying something like that tends to rub people the wrong way lol.
Sorry, but I have to call bullshit on this one. I was an introvert for a very long time, and I made the conscious choice to become an extrovert. In addition to that, as happy as I thought I was as an introvert, it does not compare to the enjoyment I've received from being an extrovert.
That's not an introvert. That's extroversion masked by social anxiety. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 5:18:40 AM | | I think alot of the criticism of introverts is based on people not being able to understand that somebody else is not interested in them and is perfectly willing to live life without ever knowing them. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 6:32:45 AM | | i choose to be introvetred because of all the bs by people who are very rude , loud mouth idoits who think the world revolves around them | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 11:02:06 AM | | Dig, all you have to do is google introverts to learn more about them. You will find the articles and studies that show that 60% of gifted people are introverts. I have a tested IQ of 132 and absolutely love to learn new things. If I were an extrovert I would be doing other things. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 1:32:53 PM |
There's got to be middle ground, perhaps a 'middlevert' which is a bit of both...Me personally I love and NEED my alone time, if I don't get it I become mentally drained....Some may think this is an introvert type but I can also be an extrovert too...I my opinion the most balanced people are those that fall in the middle...
I totally agree with this. There are extremes and balances - and when it comes to personalities there's a range of people from one end to the other. A lot of the majority is in the middle. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 5:01:47 PM | ...
and to the gentleman which raised the proposition of being one then the other ...from a former experience. i say yes. definitely. one talking to you right now. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 5:03:21 PM | ...i am the introvert becoming mad to manage social awareness and under some quite distressfull realizations ...which i shan't relate ..... mind you.
but i always had the talent socially. i was a gifted diplomat. too soon perhaps. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 5:05:55 PM | ...life phases (mind-sets) and life cycles move forward in a sense. and neither ever finally stop. i don't know where my head would be were it not fashioned so fixedly to my personal integrity. ....and it takes a very good sailor to right himself at sea with the wind blown waves to swallow in an instant.
scary. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/3/2009 9:43:53 PM |
That's not an introvert. That's extroversion masked by social anxiety.
So evidently you're an extrovert masked by social anxiety as well then? The reason I ask is because you posted this in another thread....
OP, I understand the desire to keep to yourself. My best friend is an extrovert, and I'm regularly turning down his offers to hang out, because he wants to drag me along with all his other friends, and honestly, I'm not about that crap. I'm not going to spend my time hanging around a group of people that I don't know, sitting quietly in the back, trying to fight my anxiety, and just wishing I was at home.
I did that very thing during my "introvert" days as well.
In my experience, introverts are more intelligent because they know themselves first, then learn other people.
I wouldn't say more intelligent but certainly more self aware. Because they spend much of their time thinking, often about themselves. Then again that self awareness can also become self delusion under the wrong circumstances because the mind can be extremely creative with philosophy. This is part of what I was talking about earlier. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/4/2009 4:00:36 AM |
So evidently you're an extrovert masked by social anxiety as well then? The reason I ask is because you posted this in another thread....
I did that very thing during my "introvert" days as well.
The difference is, I'm happy being introverted and having time to myself. You WANTED to be social and outgoing, but had yet to learn how. | |
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| The truth about Introverts.
Posted: 11/4/2009 9:28:57 AM | ...
division. that was quite well said. you have given it some thought.
though. intelligence is relative. intelligence is a process of mind in relationship.
so ideas. thoughts. gaining experience with ideas for the building and rebuilding or deconstruction of whatever...which ever set of ideas.
intelligence is a personal process for each person alone though ideas are all of impersonal nature. no ideas a person can call their own. so ideas are borrowed.
the mind is a muscle to move it in relationship. by its whatever massive intricacies of ideas relationship. personal if relative to soul body. ...social if relative to relationship and culture(s).
ideas are high of relationship and ideas are low of relationship. relative to the purpose in exchange. wherefore it arrive from and to.
introverts are then less able by practice to manage social ideas if their more true introverted (therefore subjective) orientations were persistent.
but that do not negate sociability for all mind feeling body relationship have natural relationship. an autistic child is susceptible to natural rhythms and mind/feeling response.
extroverts are predisposed to social management. they are not less intelligent and gain social concepts particular to their relationship ability as or more readily than an introvert may.
terms like stupidity and dumb or moronic are highly prejudicial and unfair terminologies (and often terminations) to the mind of a person. since all ideas are relative from the position of the mind feeling person orientation which be of to grasp relationship.
keep up the good work. i enjoy your sensitivity and respects for. | |
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