high extroverts experience a feeling of desire to interact with the external environment that i’ve best heard described as “greediness”; introverts otoh are way more satisfied with *not interacting*, there’s no strong magnet of emotion pulling you into interaction with your environment in the same way
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External environment overrated, disregard and resume contemplation.
i think this is why introversion is hard to pin down, it’s really the shadow universe of what living without that external magnet is like
I’m strongly introvert, but there are limits to it.
While I’m separated from my husband for a few months (he’s held up working on a construction project on another continent), and while I’m working from home, I’ve gone kind of stir crazy.
Living alone back when I went to work each day with friends wasn’t a problem. Working from home when my husband is around isn’t a problem. But working from home while my husband is away is a monk-like existence that is even too introverted for me after a while.
Since we travel a lot we don’t even have a cat, so it’s like I’m trying out being a cat lady without even the cat.
This happens to me always working from home.
That is why I now have a ritual of going to the coffee shop and talking to either the baristas or clients that way I don't go just completely insane
Get on nostr:npub1c0rnyyhmdnvg6xkvrrmgf8rxp3r28jtjhad8vmze8rgxf87aed7qlltlvg Lyn. Pass some time with plebs talkin shit or even do some yoga on hive talk. Opportunity’s a plenty now days
I'll second that. I always used to turn on the ham radio just to hear some other humans. Now it's Corny Chat.
Luckily pretend cat life avoids Toxoplasmosis which I'm pretty sure accounts for a lot of the stereotype.
I dunno. It's complicated. I'm an introvert but I feel a draw to interact with some folks, just not all folks. If I see some introverted nerds that look like they would laugh at my jokes I am here for it.
If it's a crowd of folks I don't think I would have much in common with I could just as easily keep walking. No draw for me.
And then some folks are just intimidating, so I keep my distance unless I get pulled in. It's a dumb reaction but it comes from a place of respect. Like senpai notice me type stuff.