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Charging your social battery by plugging into other people, not away from them.
means A personality trait marked by drawing energy from the outer world of people and activity rather than the inner world of thought.
from Coined in the early 20th century by psychologist Carl Jung, built from Latin extra ('outside') plus vertere ('to turn') — literally someone whose attention turns outward. Jung paired it with its mirror-twin 'introversion' as part of his theory of psychological types; note it's properly spelled 'extraversion' in psychology, though 'extroversion' crept in later by analogy with 'extrovert.'
- origin
- Jung coined it, not party planners
- misconception
- not the same as talkative or loud
- brain wiring
- extraverts need more stimulation to feel alert
- spectrum
- everyone's a mix, pure types barely exist