Link To Original Submission I Am A Bot . Please Message uccd if you have any feedback or suggestions . <| sep |> Hm you know how people talk about mirror neurons ? Those may or may not exist , but I ' ll use the concept to explain . When we are around other people , as humans and animals we catch onto the social vibe as in how other people are behaving including such things as posture and micro expressions . We do this presumably because status hierarchies and other kinds of threats have always played a role in survival . So let ' s say we ' re picking this stuff up with mirror neurons and are subconsciously emulating these visceral vibes to not stand out and give away our position on the social hierarchy . Well . someone who is very sensitive is going to be draining more resources around other people because his mirror neurons are firing so much . But the positive is that , he will over time become more aware of these little behaviors because he feels them in himself so much and has so many neural chains dedicated so strongly to this stuff . He can then use this awareness to control his own behavior and influence others ' emotions for the positive . And maybe he can stop such large amounts of neurons firing letting the stimulation affect him and introversion is actually just social anxiety . So for all I know introextraversion is totally changeable , or isn ' t as useful a metric as one would think . But it ' s definitely not a bad thing to be introvertedsocially anxious . Hell , Eminem is for certain an introverted person if anything , and he ' s given two or three concerts in his life , has he not ?