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Not shy — just running on a battery that charges in silence, not crowds.
means A personality orientation toward one's own inner thoughts and feelings rather than outward social stimulation, and where one draws and spends mental energy.
from From Latin intro- 'inward' plus vertere 'to turn' — literally 'a turning inward.' The word entered English via the psychological vocabulary built up in the early 20th century, with Carl Jung giving it currency as a technical term around the 1920s when he paired it against its twin, extroversion, to describe where people direct their psychic energy.
- not shyness
- shyness fears judgment, introversion just prefers solitude
- energy source
- draws energy from alone time, spends it socializing
- brain wiring
- introverts show more cortical arousal at rest than extroverts
- spectrum, not switch
- most people sit somewhere in the ambivert middle