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Introvert Traits/Preferences

I’d get a lot more haircuts if I could order ‘em from Amazon!

I know I look a whole lot better with a haircut that’s just four to six weeks old. But from early October until December 31st, I did not get a cut and really didn’t look my best at work or during the holidays. I consciously trimmed down my obligations for December, because with the mountain [...]

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Eye contact wears this introvert out – faster than anything else!

As I’ve started to try to analyze the kinds of activities that I do with others that exhaust me the fastest and what I do to catch a refreshing break, eye contact is the number one battery drainer for me. A regular party will wear me out much faster than a game-watching party, drive, or [...]

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Introvert needs are positive and healthy

Funny, when we talk about holidays or social events or many other topics, we introverts agree on a lot of things that we definitely need. We need time to recharge, or process all the stimulation we’ve had, or whatever it is that happens that makes us feel good, like we’re supposed to again. We find [...]

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Introverts and neighbors

Some of the TV shows I’ve enjoyed the most over the years have been set in a house or apartment with a steady stream of people coming and going. After all, it wouldn’t be any fun to watch a show where the character is reading or watching a movie alone for the whole half hour [...]

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Of course I don’t want to go, but an ask would be nice!

Sometimes it’s easy to feel lonely just because of all the wild activity we see (and imagine) all around us. We hear about parties and other social gatherings to which we weren’t even invited, and of course we see evidence of such events all the time, even at the supermarket. People are busily buying snack [...]

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Introvert micro energy management

Most of us introverts are conscious of how we have to be careful to allocate our days and people-energy to the people and things that we care about most in our lives. We want to spend time with loved ones and other friends. We need to give our very best to our job, and that [...]

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Thanks, but I have my own drummer

Since childhood, I have never understood the people I uncharitably think of as “chameleons.” From the time we were teenagers, I’ve known two people who seemed to completely change themselves several times, based on who they were hanging out with. As teenagers, they started out in a relatively rough crowd in high school, adopting their [...]

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Quiet! Trying to think here!

Although some introverts are calm, or appear calm almost all the time, I’m not that type. When I’m under pressure to think and get something important done, I’m calm and analytical, unless there are humans talking to me while I’m trying to think. Actually, I’d always thought I was the type to get “stressed out” [...]

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Holidays and the introvert

If you’re an introvert who celebrates any of the late year holidays, then sometime around the beginning or middle of October you probably became aware of a nagging thought that it’s getting to be that time again. If you have family members to love, then your thoughts about the holidays are not all bah humbug, [...]

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Why is enjoying my favorite spots considered “hiding?”

When you go to the beach and you see 100 feet of coastline jam packed with people so there’s not even space to walk between the towels, but just beyond that crowded area there are just a few people but lots of space between them, which area would you head for? I for one would [...]

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Introvert Extrovert: Reaching out across the abyss

Of course it’s not really an abyss. But sometimes we need to stop to think how things look from the other side of the fence. A couple of weeks ago Mark commented on the post Don’t ask an introvert if he’s OK!, and since that post was one of the ones from early August, I [...]

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Four times it would be great if introverts had extra batteries

As I’ve told you, I truly love being an introvert. I can’t describe to extroverts the elation I feel when I know I have a good long stretch of time where I can read, write, or do whatever I want. But of course I live in the real world where every day is not a [...]

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