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What Happened When An Extrovert Practice Introversion
This is a field experiment from a testified extrovert.
And the extrovert who tested this was me, so you can hear from my first hand experience.
For the record, by any popular personality test — from MBTI to Big 5 Models, I am recorded as an extrovert. My interest in doing this experiment peaked after reading a book called “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” by Susan Cain. Throughout the book, she laid some interesting powers of an introvert (like deeper introspection, better analytics, better at deeper 1:1, vulnerable relationship) that made me wonder — “what if I can do that too?”.
Before you read the rest, there are 2 pieces of background information to know.
1. Is extroversion/introversion in-born?
This is a controversial topic.
Many claims that extroversion-introversion is hard-wired in your brain activity. The difference is in the activity of the reward network. As explained by Scott Barry Kaufman, the Scientific Director of The Imagination Institute, while detecting what energizes you, the brain of an extrovert floods with dopamine and is responsive with outward reward, while the brain of an introverts’ brains flood with another neurotransmitter called…
