I’ve come across a couple true extraverts recently, and it has reinforced the idea that there are introverted and extraverted personality types. Previously, I

I’ve come across a couple true extraverts recently, and it has reinforced the idea that there are introverted and extraverted personality types. Previously, I don’t think I fully believed that anyone felt recharged rather than drained being around people. Note that social, outgoing, highly-connected people can be introverts. Because extraverts are more at home in a social setting than alone — again, hard to even imagine for an introvert — they will tend to choose being around people over being alone. Meetings at work. Drinks after work, followed by meeting friends. An awesome day involves being around other people from morning to night, and the next day they are right back at it. Extraverts also do their processing by talking to other people, whereas introverts talk to themselves a lot more, hence the part of the article about problem-solving alone vs in meetings. Through this lens, the whole concept of a meeting ought to strike introverts and extraverts very differently. This also leads me to believe that introverts and extraverts each have unique strengths.