Simon Ratcliffe
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11-20-2017
What are introverts and extraverts?
What are introverts and extraverts? Introverts and extroverts are very different from each other, as Carl Jung the popularizer of the 2 terms introverted and extroverted says”The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” The terms of introvert, extrovert, and our inventor, Carl Jung will be described. Carl Jung discovered that there were 3 kinds of people in the world Introverts, Extroverts, and Ambiverts. Jung’s definition for introverts and extraverts was “Each person seems to be energized more by either …show more content…
In many ways, ambiverts have the best of both worlds, able to tap into the strengths of both introverts and extroverts, as needed.” Susan Cain writer of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, a book on the power of Introverts in a world where it’s estimated that more than one half of the world's population are Extroverts, and that's why most if not all schools are biased towards more Extroverted work, and not both types of work. Some of the criteria for most public schools are; Group counseling, Social and cultural foundations, which shows that school criteria requires schools to be able to do extroverted activities,which puts introverts to a disadvantage in most schools, which is unfair to introverts because they can get a GPA drop because of school …show more content…
I have witnessed a GPA drop for one of my friends for nearly the same reasons. This may also be important to schools because they want to pull in and educate as many people as possible for a few financial reasons, so they want to seem welcoming to both types. Theis terms are also important to teachers because from simple assessments they can tell if a student is introverted or extroverted and how to humor the way they think. I wonder if NASA thinks about introversion and extroversion when requesting for employees, maybe some companies think about this when writing a slogan, who knows (well other than the companies, of