It is very tiring. When i started doing it, i was amazed how tired i felt at the end of a 9 to 5 workday. But i got used to it, and it wasn't long before it was

It is very tiring. When i started doing it, i was amazed how tired i felt at the end of a 9 to 5 workday. But i got used to it, and it wasn't long before it was perfectly comfortable. I think there's some sort of mental muscle you exercise by pairing, and it takes a while to develop the endurance it needs. I do wish pairing advocates talked about this. It feels mildly fraudulent not to. I'm not sure introversion vs extraversion is relevant. Firstly, i'm not sure they're even real things; they show up in a lot of snake oil psychology (Jung, Myers-Briggs), but i don't know to what extent they label a real axis of variation. But if extraversion means "the state of primarily obtaining gratification from outside oneself", then an extravert ought to hate pairing, because it's the same as programming solo, but with someone constantly pointing out what you've done wrong. The conversation you have during pairing is very, very different to a normal social conversation, because it's so focused on the work in hand.