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Updated 3 weeks ago,April 7, 2025
Its easy to misidentify ourpersonality types.
Hating people is not an inherent quality of introversion.
Conversely, liking people is not an inherent quality of extroversion.
Allow me to elaborate with a metaphor.
I very much enjoy weight-training.
In fact, weight-training is one of my favorite things in the world.
I like the feeling of curling my hands around a weighted bar.
I like the relaxation of stretching out after a good session.
But I can also only weight-train for about an hour and a half at a time.
Because if I worked out for longer than that Id be damaging my body.
You see what Im getting at here?
Both of them are easily over-stimulated.
Being tired out by something doesnt mean you hate it.
The dude still lead with Te.
But hating people didnt classify him an introvert it just made him an extrovert who hated people.
To be an introvert means tofavor the parasympathetic side of your nervous system.
Does an extrovert have to be discovering people to use this side of their nervous system?
So for the love of all things holy, can we like stop equating introversion with hating people?
It is skewing the definitions of introvert and extrovert in an incorrect way.
So can we kindly,pleasestop equating the two terms?
Were never going to understand what either one means until we stop creating a false relationship between them.
