Introverts and Extroverts

Visit this link through TIME Magazine to see if you are likely an introvert or an extrovert.

Quiz

Extroverts

Extroverts tend to enjoy human interactions and to be enthusiastic, talkative, assertive, and gregarious.

They take pleasure in activities that involve large social gatherings, such as parties, community activities, public demonstrations, and business or political groups.

Politics, teaching, sales, managing and brokering are fields that favor extroversion.

An extroverted person is likely to enjoy time spent with people and find less reward in time spent alone.

They tend to be energized when around other people, and they are more prone to boredom when they are by themselves.

Introverts

Some popular writers have characterized introverts as people whose energy tends to expand through reflection and dwindle during interaction.

Introverts tend to be more reserved and less outspoken in groups.

They often take pleasure in solitary activities such as reading, writing, using computers, hiking and fishing.

The artist, writer, sculptor, engineer, compose, and inventor are all highly introverted.

An introvert is likely to enjoy time spent alone and find less reward in time spent with large groups of people, though he or she may enjoy interactions with close friends.

Trust is usually an issue of significance: a virtue of utmost importance to an introvert choosing a worthy friend.

They prefer to concentrate on a single activity at a time and like to observe situations before they participate, especially observed in developing children and adolescents.

They think before speaking.

Introverts are easily overwhelmed by too much stimulation from social gatherings and engagement, introversion having even been defined by some in terms of a preference for a quiet, more minimally stimulating environment.

Introversion is not seen as being identical to shy or to being a social outcast.

Introverts prefer solitary activities over social ones.