Shadow
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- Feb 17, 2009
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- MBTI Type
- INTJ
The introversion affects me at work the most, not so much at school. Actually, it affects me a lot at school. It's so fucking easy for me to just seclude myself from everyone else. I have to take intentional precautions to make sure I'm still part of society. When first get to work, my energy level is way over the top, mostly because I've had the time before I got there to recharge.
After about 3-4 hours at work without a break, I start to plummet. It becomes several times harder to maintain conversations with people. I retreat into my head, begin analyzing everything going on in my life, think about random things, and before I know it while I'm checking customers out, the whole checkout process will go by and I said about 4 words to them that were automatic. I don't even realize the effect I'm having on the other people because what's happening in my head is just commanding 90% of my attention.
Sounds just like me. It is very easy to become secluded for me too. I've literally not seen a friend or family member for the last 2 weeks (probably why I've been on here so much), because I've been studying. Yet I'm fine. It would drive an extravert crazy.
It is the energy isn't it? Like I've said before, it's fine to begin with if you've hyped yourself up about it. That's why I don't like it if people spring things on me without prior warning.
It makes me think of the inner world of an IN vs. an IS. I don't know what the inside of an IN is like, but is it more imaginative? My thoughts are constantly regarding things going on in my life or things that have happened recently. It could just be Si at work. When I'm really in tune with myself thinking, I start replaying things in my head over and over again, like lines from a book or a tv show or a conversation with someone, or I'll go over a subject at school in my head trying to intentionally recall it. My focus is more on the things that have happened in my life that added significance.
Again, same. I rarely go into different dimensions of thought; my thoughts will be about my life and people in my life, my study or work, or broader topics like current affairs and social issues which have practical effects. Occasionally there'll be thoughts of a spiritual nature, but that's when I've been alone for too long. I wouldn't call myself unimaginative, more like untheoretical.