6th April 2006, 6:10 PM
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch
Though, the guy does take an odd egotistical stance about introversion (or that may be a sense of humor, at any rate I certainly think the extroverted standpoint is something with it's own merits), this seems to sum it up well.
So hey, it's not that I don't like talking with people, it's just that I only partake in short bursts and then have to recooperate afterwards.
(By the way, contrary to this fellow, I actually am somewhat emotinally parsinonous. At any rate, my mother is the same way. We both will go to small parties but tend to recooperate afterwards. Further, any continous gathering situation or travelling from one party to another over the course of a few days is out of the question. That's a lot of socializing to take in all at once.)
Though, the guy does take an odd egotistical stance about introversion (or that may be a sense of humor, at any rate I certainly think the extroverted standpoint is something with it's own merits), this seems to sum it up well.
So hey, it's not that I don't like talking with people, it's just that I only partake in short bursts and then have to recooperate afterwards.
(By the way, contrary to this fellow, I actually am somewhat emotinally parsinonous. At any rate, my mother is the same way. We both will go to small parties but tend to recooperate afterwards. Further, any continous gathering situation or travelling from one party to another over the course of a few days is out of the question. That's a lot of socializing to take in all at once.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
