Introverts

La di da pointed me to Caring for Your Introvert, which I found interesting and accurate. If the habits and needs of introverts are news to anyone, they certainly should read that article. My main complaint is that it all seemed utterly obvious to me. He excessively glorifies the introverted life, and also stops short of giving practical advice to extroverts on how to deal with introverts. There is an element of revenge in this article: the author is not much interested in understanding extroverts.

I certainly fit his description of an introvert very well: I am happier alone than with people and happier with silence than talking. I observe social people around me all the time, and their lives scare me. I watch people talk about everything they do with everyone they know until their life becomes an average of what all the people around them are doing. That is the natural way to follow the herd, I suppose, but for some reason it repels me. I suppose the article just lacks depth: it is a short article in a humorous self-help vein, and not fairly compared with the Hesse novels I read which treated the same issue with far more insight.

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