<story><title>A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/08/12/740897970/a-novel-concept-silent-book-clubs-offer-introverts-a-space-to-socialize</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddtaylor</author><text>People often equate introvert to mean &amp;quot;doesn&amp;#x27;t prefer to be around people&amp;quot; and extroverts to mean &amp;quot;loves to be around people&amp;quot;, but that&amp;#x27;s essentially a myth.&lt;p&gt;The best layman explanation I have heard is that extroverts are &amp;quot;recharged&amp;quot; by being around others whereas introverts recharge by being alone. For example, I really like being around people, but the idea of not having time to myself to recharge can be exhausting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>&amp;gt; The best layman explanation I have heard is that extroverts are &amp;quot;recharged&amp;quot; by being around others whereas introverts recharge by being alone&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a good step 1.&lt;p&gt;Step 2 is realising that introverts often do get energised by one-on-one or small group socialising, or socialising in a more meaningful way around a real shared interest.&lt;p&gt;Step 3 is realising that the concept of introversion&amp;#x2F;extraversion generalises past social interaction to preferences for levels of external interaction &amp;#x2F; stimulation in general. So for example, some people may not be super-sociable, but may love lot&amp;#x27;s of external physical stimulation (music&amp;#x2F;lights&amp;#x2F;exercise, etc), others may love to be exposed external ideas (or alternatively have a preference to only be exposed to small amounts of these things).&lt;p&gt;^ This is the notion of introversion&amp;#x2F;extroversion captured by the MBTI &amp;#x2F; Jungian Type Theories, where Extraverted Feeling (Fe) roughly function corresponds to the popular notion of extraversion, but there are also Extraverted Sensing (Se), Extraverted Intuition (Ne) and Extraverted Thinking (Te) functions which present differently.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Novel Concept: Silent Book Clubs Offer Introverts a Space to Socialize</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/08/12/740897970/a-novel-concept-silent-book-clubs-offer-introverts-a-space-to-socialize</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddtaylor</author><text>People often equate introvert to mean &amp;quot;doesn&amp;#x27;t prefer to be around people&amp;quot; and extroverts to mean &amp;quot;loves to be around people&amp;quot;, but that&amp;#x27;s essentially a myth.&lt;p&gt;The best layman explanation I have heard is that extroverts are &amp;quot;recharged&amp;quot; by being around others whereas introverts recharge by being alone. For example, I really like being around people, but the idea of not having time to myself to recharge can be exhausting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iraldir</author><text>yep, that&amp;#x27;s correct. Me and my fiancée are both text-books introverts, but I&amp;#x27;m not shy at all, have no fear of public speaking etc. while she is the opposite.&lt;p&gt;But for both of us, even having a drink after work with people is super exhausting and we just want to go home and relax, while an extrovert would be depressed staying alone and needs to recharge by having fun with people.</text></comment>