I seem to have started an association

[firecat]

On a local mailing list recently, there has been a discussion of Myers-Briggs, and someone posted that she had become more extroverted as her confidence increased. I posted the following:

The Association of Introverts Educating Everyone (AIEE) would like to
congratulate [name] on her increase in confidence and also to offer the
following Public Service Announcement:

Improvements in confidence are not necessarily associated with becoming extroverted, and introversion is not necessarily associated with lack of confidence. Extroversion means being recharged by being around people. Introversion means recharged by being alone.

[/aiee psa]

ag_unicorn added AIEE to his interests list. So I added it to mine.

Feel free to join AIEE if you would like to see introversion better understood by society at large.

Comments

Re: Item from an introvert

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is me these days, too. I'm not shy now, nor have I ever been shy, but for a couple of years now I've been getting more and more introverted. I think this is due to a number of factors, some drastic, some gradual. I think it's okay (even a good thing!), as long as I retain my ability to be social when I need/want to be.

-J

Re: Item from an introvert

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

Jung's theory of Adult Developmental Psychology is that as we gain wisdom, we learn to rely less on those patterns which served us well as children and young adults, such as introversion, and come to rely more on different patterns such as extroversion.

I take this to mean that as we learn from situations we encounter through time, we have the choice of doing the things that we've always done, and getting the same results we've always had. Or the choice of doing them differently, to get different results, which requires different skills.

Jung's idea was that someone who was a strong Introvert, would develop more Extroversion, and become more balanced on the I/E scale. In Myers Briggs speak, I would be going from an INTP to an xxxx. I do know that as I grow older, I find having Extrovert skills to be much more useful than I used to.

Still working on that T/F thing.

Love and Kisses xxxx!

Re: Item from an introvert

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know about the theory that maturation leads to more balance (and there's a lot of stuff that doesn't jive between Jung's theory and actual research, but I really like that idea in principle). But what I meant was that I'd actually gone from being an extravert to being an *introvert*, quite strongly. All the way over to the other side of the spectrum with me!

Oh, and *smooches* back!

-J