[krabat]

Let me begin by saying that I FEEL anti-social, introvert with a need for solitude to re-charge, and as a monkey see-monkey do-personality with minimal repertoire, when it comes to social navigation, and overly serious in all circumstances containing 20% people, I don't know. Except, when I'm slightly inebriated.

When I got my first Mac, an SE/30, back in 1992, it came with a Meyers Briggs Type Indicator program. The result placed me barely inside "introvert", right next to the dividing line between extrovert and introvert.

(http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-bas... for details on what and how.)

I have retaken the test 3 times since then, and twice experienced extrovert/introvert result as "extrovert", barely inside extrovert. For comparisons the other three parts of the test (placement as thinking or feeling, sensing or intuition and judging or perceiving) have remained the same over the years.

Since the questions in the test as well as calculating result follow strict rules, I am led to conclude that the two times I tested "extrovert" were periods of happiness and security in my life. Just enough endorfin and dopamin juice in my brain to lead me to evaluate my own social skills and desire for social interaction slightly more positive than normally. (I wasn't drunk during these tests... :-D )

What say ye? Are we introvert and extrovert from brain chemistry and previous programming? Can we change? Should we change? Or just make the most of it, rather than compete with those, who've had their whole life to learn how to navigate by the laws of extrovertism...?

[krabat]

Or maybe I am an AMBIVERT - someone shifting between Extro and Intro. Being new to the term it does sound alluring, but kind of defies the whole purpose of placement...

But comparing to my biorhythms, which I have 16 years of experience with, it could seem there is a correspondence to the placement of my emotional highs and lows - high emotional curve plus high mental curve gives me the courage to stand in a crowd and feel comfortable (without the drained feeling afterwards). Whereas low emotional curve almost always spells Introvert.

Hmmm... more thoughts to receive.