Comments on: Introverts Unite

By: Paul Bennetts

Paul Bennetts — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:40:17 +0000

Just read this – two years on! My problem? – I come out 50/50 on the E/I tests and am either the quietest extrovert I know or the noisiest introvert I know – aargh!. Those who know me including my wife seem to agree.

By: Kirk Austin

Kirk Austin — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:14:52 +0000

Dan,
If you are interested in reading further re: introversion v extraversion there are some good books out there. Lifekeys; Type Talk at Work (and other MBTI material); Do what you are. etc Knowing how you are created can really help to ‘give life’.

By: Matt Wiebe

Matt Wiebe — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:08:54 +0000

Glad that many people found this to be an engaging, if somewhat overstated, article. I know that I had to get a massage after all that head-nodding!

By: Tim Kantel

Tim Kantel — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:20:08 +0000

Interesting article Dan. I finally read and I guess I could say it confirmed a lot of what I already knew about myself as a classic introvert.

The only thing that troubled me slightly was this undertone throughout the article that the author was still trying to justify to the world who he is as an introvert. There’s no winner or looser in this game in the end. We are who we are and I’m comfortable in that.

As far as parenting an introvert goes, to me there’s two things that need to happen at the same time. Do everything you can to make the child comfortable with who he or she is. There’s no need to have to conform or develop into someone that the world (read: extroverts) demand. At the same time you must guide the child through the process of them finding their place in that world and how to integrate into it. There’s all sorts of sub-issues to work through here but that’s two general principles.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:35:26 +0000

From my perspective, give them room, give them space, away from people, and yet don’t allow them to wallow in isolation. If I had my choice, I would be alone most of the time, but I experience the strange unhealthiness of that craving over time.

I think a parent’s role is to cover and protect the way the child re-energizes, but not to cater to it in a world that demands interaction. Genius can hide behind the introversion, and boucoup love, affection and support, in my mind, turns that genius into an outward gift that can benefit the wider community.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:32:11 +0000

gee…i totally get the 2-to-1 thing! But I am not sure I am a total introvert.

What I would like to know is how to parent an introvert and bless them in who they are?

By: Administrator

Administrator — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:45:49 +0000

such a chord this hits, eh?

By: David Aitken

David Aitken — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:54:21 +0000

… I can relate … I’ve tried to explain that ratio of 2-to-1 (party-time to recovery-alone-time) to people before, but no one believes me. Now I have an internet article to back up my claim !

By: Graeme

Graeme — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:51:39 +0000

Fantastic stuff, at last we are being recognised rather than diagnosed
As an introvert it’s nice to know that God might actually have made me this way for a reason, I’m not just an opressed/depressed/broken extrovert.

Anyway, I need to be alone now

By: Heidi Renee

Heidi Renee — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:30:32 +0000

Just what I needed – I blogged it and linked too, thank you! I have shamed myself for far too long for hating parties and enjoying being alone. Great thoughts.