I always thought I was an extrovert - and some still view me as such. But when I learned it had more to do with how we obtain our energy, I realized that I am more introvert than extrovert. I don't receive my energy from people; in fact, people drain me. I love my alone time, and actually prefer being by myself (just ask my fiancé lol) With maturity, I've gotten very good at putting myself out of my comfort zones, to engage with others, but it doesn't mean I enjoy it. Far from it.
Thanks for sharing these beautiful insights Corinne. Do you follow Susan Cain on Substack? She writes a newsletter called "A Quiet Life." She's the author of the book "Quiet" which put the very ideas you're talking about into the main stream. I really appreciated her book bc it gave me permission to acknowledge I need A LOT of quiet (it's why I wake up so early).
Over the years, I've swung from thinking I was an introvert to thinking I was an 'introvert in denial' to now landing on the idea I'm an ambivert. I both get energy from being alone but also from people. If I don't have a balance of the two, I feel off. I have met true extroverts and I think they are less common than we realize.
From one day to the next, an omnivert may present themselves differently, jumping around on the personality spectrum. Omniverts cannot completely be pinpointed on the extroversion spectrum because of this trait.
Instead, the presentation of their personality will depend on their social setting, who they are speaking to, and what kind of situation they encounter.
The tendency for omniverts to abruptly switch their extroversion traits makes it hard to identify this personality type.
That is FASCINATING. I hadn't heard of Omnivert before. It makes sense personality types would be along a spectrum and I'm sure it will fluctuate over a person's life. When I was taking psychology classes in university in the early 2000's, it was believed that personality was static over a person's life. Today, the opposite is held as true in psychology: that our personalities actually do change over the course of our lives.
I always thought I was an extrovert - and some still view me as such. But when I learned it had more to do with how we obtain our energy, I realized that I am more introvert than extrovert. I don't receive my energy from people; in fact, people drain me. I love my alone time, and actually prefer being by myself (just ask my fiancé lol) With maturity, I've gotten very good at putting myself out of my comfort zones, to engage with others, but it doesn't mean I enjoy it. Far from it.
Thanks for sharing these beautiful insights Corinne. Do you follow Susan Cain on Substack? She writes a newsletter called "A Quiet Life." She's the author of the book "Quiet" which put the very ideas you're talking about into the main stream. I really appreciated her book bc it gave me permission to acknowledge I need A LOT of quiet (it's why I wake up so early).
Over the years, I've swung from thinking I was an introvert to thinking I was an 'introvert in denial' to now landing on the idea I'm an ambivert. I both get energy from being alone but also from people. If I don't have a balance of the two, I feel off. I have met true extroverts and I think they are less common than we realize.
I'll look for her. Thanks for the recommendation. I decided to look up these descriptions, and I think I actually fall under "omnivert":
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From one day to the next, an omnivert may present themselves differently, jumping around on the personality spectrum. Omniverts cannot completely be pinpointed on the extroversion spectrum because of this trait.
Instead, the presentation of their personality will depend on their social setting, who they are speaking to, and what kind of situation they encounter.
The tendency for omniverts to abruptly switch their extroversion traits makes it hard to identify this personality type.
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"Depending on the situation" - that is definitely me. It would explain why it's been difficult for me to label myself. Fascinating.
That is FASCINATING. I hadn't heard of Omnivert before. It makes sense personality types would be along a spectrum and I'm sure it will fluctuate over a person's life. When I was taking psychology classes in university in the early 2000's, it was believed that personality was static over a person's life. Today, the opposite is held as true in psychology: that our personalities actually do change over the course of our lives.