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This thread is directed to the extroverts of the forum, but as always anyone can participate.
What are your drives for extroversion? The past week or so has given me a lot of food for thought about many things type related. However, extroversion perhaps contains the most, despite it being the most "simple". I've had a lot of preconceived notion on what extroversion is, and is not, and has resulted in having an unreliable internal scale of how extroverted a person is. There's little use in discussing what those were though as it will ultimately be distracting.
Conversations with others have lead me to realize one key thing about how I experience extroversion in myself: The external world is more stimulating and has more to offer than the internal world. By extension, other people have more to offer. When I was little I had a very active imagination and did quite a bit with it (and the core of it still remains today). I am an only child so I had to use it to self entertain. Ultimately though, interacting with others just felt more stimulating. More importantly, interacting with others got rid of the bored so much more quickly and efficiently. As I see it, other people will always provide something new and stimulating with the right input, further though, they will reliably and predictably give something new and novel with input. It makes little sense to me to keep things to myself (but of course there are things that we must), and I also want to hear others share theirs as well. How else are we to connect and understand one another? There are other methods, but this is the method that makes sense to me. We have language for a reason.
It can be boiled down to this, my drives towards extroversion are:
+ The external world is more stimulating than the internal world.
+ Other people always provide something new and stimulating.
+ Always wanting some form of stimulation that doesn't come from the self.
+ Makes little sense to keep things in.
+ Strong desire to outwardly share thoughts and feelings.
+ Wanting others to outwardly share thoughts and feelings.
Fellow extroverts, what are your drives, why are they your drives? How do you experience extroversion overall? I feel like if enough people provide input into why they are extroverted, it will give a better understand of what extroversion actually is. There's a lot of stereotypes/notions out there that very few supposed extroverts relate to.
Discuss.
What are your drives for extroversion? The past week or so has given me a lot of food for thought about many things type related. However, extroversion perhaps contains the most, despite it being the most "simple". I've had a lot of preconceived notion on what extroversion is, and is not, and has resulted in having an unreliable internal scale of how extroverted a person is. There's little use in discussing what those were though as it will ultimately be distracting.
Conversations with others have lead me to realize one key thing about how I experience extroversion in myself: The external world is more stimulating and has more to offer than the internal world. By extension, other people have more to offer. When I was little I had a very active imagination and did quite a bit with it (and the core of it still remains today). I am an only child so I had to use it to self entertain. Ultimately though, interacting with others just felt more stimulating. More importantly, interacting with others got rid of the bored so much more quickly and efficiently. As I see it, other people will always provide something new and stimulating with the right input, further though, they will reliably and predictably give something new and novel with input. It makes little sense to me to keep things to myself (but of course there are things that we must), and I also want to hear others share theirs as well. How else are we to connect and understand one another? There are other methods, but this is the method that makes sense to me. We have language for a reason.
It can be boiled down to this, my drives towards extroversion are:
+ The external world is more stimulating than the internal world.
+ Other people always provide something new and stimulating.
+ Always wanting some form of stimulation that doesn't come from the self.
+ Makes little sense to keep things in.
+ Strong desire to outwardly share thoughts and feelings.
+ Wanting others to outwardly share thoughts and feelings.
Fellow extroverts, what are your drives, why are they your drives? How do you experience extroversion overall? I feel like if enough people provide input into why they are extroverted, it will give a better understand of what extroversion actually is. There's a lot of stereotypes/notions out there that very few supposed extroverts relate to.
Discuss.