Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.
The physical basis for sociopathy is approximately 50 percent inheritable, which sounds more dramatic than it probably is, because most personality characteristics that psychologists test for and study the genetics of are about 50 percent inheritable. Introversion, extroversion, it turns out that they're about 50 percent inheritable, which means that somehow sociopathy is physical, it's organic.
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.
Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.
I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
