Interesting article on introversion and extraversion

[Milo]

http://www.benziger.org/articlesIng/?p=30

 

[Beat Mango]

I've got noticeably less "mind clutter", and hence anxiety, since consciously reducing the amount of stimulus I get.

This arousal level thing is making more and more sense.

Question though: why am I more extroverted with a stimulant such as caffeine? This increases my arousal/alertness so in theory should drive me away from stimulus?

 

[Pyropyro]

Interesting read indeed.

When I'm relaxing, I tend to have lots of sources of stimulus such as playing games while listening to a podcast. However, if the work is harder like writing articles or doing reports, I tend to switch to playing trance/techno music to shut out the world for a while and concentrate.

I think I'm averse to stimulus that requires a more intensive response (like talking to a person while doing heavy stuff) but I'm okay with having background noise.

 

[Montresor]

Their argument is basically that only 30% of the population is either decidedly I or E, the rest are natural ambiverts; what's more, is that a certain percentage of E under chronic anxiety will appear as I. No mention of the converse.

I did appreciate the natural alertness vs. stimulation way of explaining it though, sort of the same thing as "draws energy from within/without".

Nothing new.