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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2017-11-05 10:07 am

Battle of the introverts

When I first met Jane I told her that I was introverted. And about two weeks later she laughed at me, pointing out how many friends I have, and how much I socialise.

Last night, when I couldn't sleep at 5am, I did a Myers-Briggs test* (to check that I was still INTP - I still am). And then this morning I got her to do it too.

Turns out that I'm 61% introvert/39% extrovert. And she's 94% introvert/6% extrovert. So to her, I look all the same as those extroverted people who leave the house, and talk to other people. And to me she looks like a tiny dot, fleeing into the introverted distance.

Preempting some of the comments - if you want to claim that MBTI is just a horoscope then you'll have to explain its correlation with the Big Five.
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[personal profile] njj4 2017-11-05 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I recently read Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain, and found it fascinating. In particular, it helped explain a lot about the way I react to social situations.