If you wish to understand, I highly recommend Jonathan Rauch's excellent and amusing essay in The Atlantic (March 2003) -- very easy to google for -- "Caring fo

If you wish to understand, I highly recommend Jonathan Rauch's excellent and amusing essay in The Atlantic (March 2003) -- very easy to google for -- "Caring for Your Introvert". One of his opinions in the essay is that introverts tend to think before speaking, and extroverts tend to think _by_ speaking. So, from that perspective, an extrovert is kind of like a DoS attack against an introvert's nervous system. It's not about superiority or inferiority. It's about a fundamental asymmetry in the modes of discourse: sound can be imposing, while silence almost never is.