[introverts] have a low threshold for dopamine, so they are easily overwhelmed. http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-be-an-introvert-and-what-everyon

[introverts] have a low threshold for dopamine, so they are easily overwhelmed. http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-be-an-introvert-and-what-everyone-gets-wrong-2018-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-be-an-introv... I consider myself something of a bivert. I like public speaking (dozens or thousands), and parties but they are exhausting. I feel socialized, I do not feel energized. I definitely need recovery from social events, and sometimes it takes days of alone time or curt replies, I just do not have the patience to coddle other people's emotional states and I certainly do not expect them to coddle mine. But then I enjoy advocating for people dedicated to whatever it is they're dedicated to - the more energy (or even emotion) they have to go down a rabbit hole that I either have no interest or expertise in, the more I'm interested in helping them by doing the things they hate doing and in some sense living vicariously through their effort. I also can't stand awards, do not care to take a compliment, and am disinterested in looking good just to get another promotion - I only care about the team and/or the project looking good. Anyway, I definitely think introverts are underrated and misunderstood. And in particular the part of the thread's article about rigid workplace structure and mandates for loyalty and respect for authority is so archaic to me: in a previous life I was a pilot and even before my time as a pilot the industry recognized the stupidity of blind loyalty and respect for the 'captain' perhaps mainly due to the Tenerife accident, and the subsequent invention of CRL/CRM (crew resource management). That style of management seems obvious and the idea corporate workplaces still have this byzantine hierarchy is just boring as well as a business risk lying in wait.