How do introverts see extroverts?

Why we hide our “best stuff”. According to Laurie Helgoe, author of Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength, “introverts keep their best stuff inside.” This is a stark contrast to many extroverts who put it all out there for the world to see. This isn't to say that extroverts don't have multiple layers of depth, too. read more

Introverts admire extroverts’ communication and conversation, and often find it charming, as they see in extroverts what they lack in themselves, and like not having to worry about guiding the conversation. However, extroverts can also rub introverts the wrong way. read more

Also, as we introverts know, not all, but a large proportion of extroverts aren't aware of the true definitions of introversion and extroversion, and that both are legitimate personality types. Whereas a lot more introverts ARE aware because they have felt forced to conform to the extrovert 'norm' their whole lives, which has in turn made them look for information as to why they seem so different to everyone else. read more

Extroverts see introverts’ entire lives as “doing and saying nothing.” Well those things are not nothing for introverts, they are the *important* things, the things that are *real* interaction. The things that are *meaningful*. read more