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>Extroverts find socializing energizing. And can find alone time draining. This sounds insane to me. I'm an introversion solipsist. Socialization is inherentl
by shrimp_emoji 5y ago
>Extroverts find socializing energizing. And can find alone time draining.
This sounds insane to me. I'm an introversion solipsist.
Socialization is inherently more demanding. Whole parts of the brain must light up -- reading faces and tone and filtering thoughts and modulating your speech and delivery and listening to others' speech. By physics alone, in the same way that a computer processing some data necessarily consumes more power than a computer doing nothing, socialization must burn more brain calories than not socializing.
After I've socialized a lot, I'm dead tired (and maybe more stressed).
- creakingstairs 5y agoI find hanging out and having a good chat with a close friend always energises me while a chat with anyone else drains me. I think the key difference is that I don’t need to worry about how my close friends will think. I know that they will accept whatever I say, so my brain isn’t using as much energy as talking to strangers. Besides, I think things like feeling heard/affirmed goes a long way in feeling energised, so I don’t think it’s strictly physics here.
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- domnomnom 5y agoYou can’t be intuitive/perceptive and think logically in parallel - that’s the main thing that’s hard. The former is feeling an emotion. The latter will inhibit the emotion. This is actually sort of a technique in cognitive behavioral therapy for dealing with anxiety.
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- adrianmonk 5y agoI think the thing is probably that, for extroverts, socializing is demanding too, but it's also rewarding. Mentally, they get more back out of it than they put into it.
- bitwize 5y agoStrenuous exercise is exhausting too, but some people love working out so much they do it for hours a day, every day. Others dread going to the gym. That's the difference between extraversion and introversion.