introversion

My introversion messes with me, so I mess with it right back.

People just do not understand introversion, so it is good to just send them a link like this.

It was as if my introversion had muted me to my own emotional state.

Normal introversion is "I just want to be left alone for a few hours", or at most, "I just want to be left alone this weekend".

I think there's a difference between what Fry's describing and normal introversion.

What you're doing in this comment and the one above is simply displaying ignorance of what introversion means.

The culture of CS, "judgmental introversion" as you put it, is not anything intrinsic to CS.

I feel compelled to share my current process of understanding and dealing with my own introversion.

I guess the difference is that mindless extroversion tends to be more obvious than mindless introversion.

You may be conflating shyness, social intelligence and introversion.

I used to think I leaned toward introversion, but gradually between high school and college I realized that I enjoyed having a big circle of friends--what I didn't enjoy was the social context of school.

You are seriously conflating "social anxiety disorder" and "introversion.

Extroversion vs. introversion.• There are "human universals" -- themes people accept automatically, without marketing, as opposed to non-universals, which have to be taught.• Knowledge dominates IQ. Henry Ford accomplished more than Leonardo da Vinci not because he was smarter, but because humanity's cumulative knowledge had given him tools and inventions Leonardo could only dream of.• Tyranny of the present.

"Seeing introversion as a preference or identity is fine as long as you have a nice consistently introverted life and that's exactly what you want, but it harks back to the day when everybody had their place and accepted their limitations and anyone who felt any conflict or frustration about it was "maladjusted.

As the book points out, introversion and extroversion can be determined very early in life, she mentions a study where infants who were more reactive to stimulus turned out to be introverts and infants who were chill turned out to be extroverts:-------“The four-month-olds who thrashed their arms like punk rockers did so not because they were extroverts in the making, but because their little bodies reacted strongly—they were “high-reactive”—to new sights, sounds, and smells,” Cain writes.