The Differences between Extrovert and Introvert

Each person is an unique human being. Everyone has different personality inside them.
Some of them are like to being surrounded by people, enjoy meeting new people, and love
sharing their thoughts. While some people are like to spend their quality time alone, do not like
crowds and usually sealed their thoughts. There are two kinds of personality which pictures
our spectrum; However there are a few people who has both the characteristics of introvert and
extrovert (Surbhi, 2016)

What classifies a person to be introverts and extroverts? Most of us probably think that
introverts are shy and quiet, while extroverts are loud. This statement is not true. From the
research conducted by Carl Jung, a psychiatrist, introversion, and extroversion differs from
where our energy comes from and what drains it. Based on his research, extroverts gain their
energy when they are surrounded by people and loss their energy when they are alone.
Introverts gain their energy when they are focus on thoughts and ideas. They lose their energy
when they are surrounded by a lot of people. (Holland, 2018).

First, let’s talk about introversion. There are many wrong assumptions about introverts.
The first one is introverts do not hate socializing. Introverts may seem to be unattracted to
social events. In reality, they do attracted to social gathering but, after a moment, they need
time to be alone because meeting people drain their energy a lot. Introverts are also not being
picky about making friends, it is just difficult for them to befriend new people. However, once
they feel comfortable with someone, introverts will show their true nature (Arthen, 2016)
Moreover, introverts prefer to pour out their energy and mind for a person or two at times rather
than having a large community. An introverted person tend to interact directly with other
people. They also like to spare their time just for listening to our struggles, because introverts
are good listeners (Hello Sehat, 2016).

Next let’s talk about an extraversion. People expected extrovert as a person who always
loud and does not like to be quiet or spend time alone. In fact, it does not work that way. Even
if extroverts spend a lot of time with a lot of people, they also need some time for themselves.
They use this quality time to recharge and sometimes accompanied with the music. As
Kahnweiler said, extrovert also need their time alone but in shorter period and in different ways
(Tartakovsky, 2013) Another misconception about extroverts are people think they are super
friendly and have incredible social skills. It is wrong because sometimes extrovert blurted out
what’s on their mind and maybe say some inappropriate things and make people around them
to feel uncomfortable (Stinson, 2018).

In our life we have declared whether as an extrovert or an introvert, however as a person

we cannot be completely introverts or extroverts. For example, we considered as an introvert
if we have dominant portion of it but we still have the extroverts side. Research found how
extraverted and introverted person differ in science and social sector.

Based on biological studies, our introvert and extrovert sides are determined by our DNA
(Dodgson, 2018). Introverts have a lot of arousal that leads them to feel stimulated chemical.
“This is not sexual arousal, but it is a need to be stimulated before you act and before you can
do what you want to do.”(Linda Blair, n.d.). This chemical substance is the reason introverts
do not like crowded places that will give them more pressure, because for them, their pressure
is already a lot. In the other hand, extroverts have a fewer amount of arousal chemical so to
make them fulfilled with energy they have to go to crowded places and that is why extroverts
like to go to the social occasions (Dodgson, 2018).

Research also proves that introverts and extroverts behave differently. In talk, the way
that introverts talk are more concrete, while extroverts talk more abstractly. Another thing is
extroverts love to wear clothing with more decoration, while introverts tend to wear plain
clothing. Extroverts are also more often to take risks than introverts (Dodgson, 2018).
Extroverts are reportedly have a higher overall of happiness than introverts, but this does not
mean that introverts are not happy, it could be that introverts are express their happiness less
than extroverts. Another interesting thing to add is extroverts are more sensitive to rewards,
while introverts are more sensitive to punishment (Suzanne, 2018).

Introverted vs extraverted has been observed by many entities that takes a long time
period. Introversion and extroversion may have a lot of difference, but a person can never
completely have all the trait of one side. All person on this world have both the characteristic
of introversion and extroversion, but one of them is dominant and that determines whether the
person considered as an introvert or an extrovert. Although they contradict each other,
introversion and extroversion has their own unique characteristics that make this world full of
beautiful diversity (NERIS Analytics Limited, 2011)
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