Introverts and Extroverts: A Brief Overview of Both Personalities

4 min readMay 10, 2021

Introverts and Extroverts

You’re probably aware of the two major personality types; introverts and extroverts. Extroverts have always enjoyed the attention, as they’ve always been the most charming person in the room. They’re the ones who come up with good jokes. They’re the one who attracts the opposite gender more and hence, get more dates. This has always been inferiority for the introverts out there.

Introverts don’t have this type of charm in their personalities. It doesn’t mean that they can never have dates, good friends, or good jokes. It’s just that they have all of these things less in number as compared to the extroverts

Weaknesses of introverts

Both of the personalities have their strengths and weaknesses.

In the case of introverts, it is visible that the introverts have issues related to communication skills. They often try to get away from conflicts, and more often they develop social anxiety.

Strengths of introverts

While in case of strengths they have a very good thing that I would like to refer to as a superpower. Because this is the thing that is the key to creation. It is solitude. Introverts have this unique ability to enjoy solitude. Hence, they have chances to develop good thinking and observation skills. This allows them to have a practical behavior toward life. They become the man of deeds rather than the man of words.

This is how introverts create their own identity.

Weaknesses of extroverts

In case of weaknesses, extroverts are not that much convenient in solitude. This is something very boring for them. This means that mostly they are not good at creative works.

Strengths of extroverts

Extroverts unlike introverts, rarely develop social anxiety. Because they are mostly good with their communication skills. They never struggle with talking to people. This is the thing that they’re doing from their childhood. They may get shy at times (because getting shy is normal, it is an emotion that can happen to any normal human being.) but they’re never afraid of talking.

The Charisma of Western and Eastern culture

Whenever we watch a movie our protagonist is mostly extrovert. we see that he always makes things better through the boldness of his personality.

As “Susan Cain” the author of the famous book on this account; “Quiet” tells us that western culture is much more of an extraverted in every aspect whether it’s about religion, the education system, or anything else.

We see that extraversion is the way of doing things. While on the other hand, eastern culture depicts introversion. As she proves this by the quote of Lao Tzu:

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

Moreover, religious practices such as; meditation are also something that depicts introversion. We see Sufism that is an eastern thing. It also tells people not to be so much bold rather we should align ourselves to the natural flow.

Evolving charisma

Now, as the world has become a global village. All of the cultures and values are mixed with one another. This is because, we humans evolve, and becoming a global village allowed us to do that on another level.

As a result, some differences can be observed. Firstly, eastern countries are also the ones appreciating the extroverts more. But still, they have little space to understand introverts. Secondly, on the internet nowadays, introverts are also gets glamorized. There’s a lot of content that talks about the charms of being introverts. In videos that are about traits or habits of intelligent people most of the time, they describe the traits of introverts rather than intelligent people.

Nature vs nurture

In the book “Quiet” the author tells us that becoming introverted or extroverted is neither totally because of nurture nor nature. It depends on both, as they both contribute 50% to a personality.

This allows introverts to get better at communication and extroverts to enjoy solitude. It’s good to learn and practice the other but we can never be completely on the other side. Because it is impossible to throw yourself away. You should first know yourself and then you should practice the other side accordingly.

Extrovert vs introvert

As the Swiss psychiatrist, “Carl Jung” said,

“There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.”

Life has always been imbalanced. The imbalance is the natural balance of life. We have seen that both extroverts and introverts have very subtle strengths and weaknesses. This allows us to see that there are sufferings as well as pleasures on both sides. If one struggles with communication skills other struggles with getting creative and practical in life, still we see both types of personalities sharing equal ratios in getting failed or successful life. It’s because the people who try to know themselves, know their strengths and weaknesses, and try to make themselves better by minimizing their weaknesses and enhancing their strengths get successful. While on the other hand, people who never try to make peace with themselves, always keep complaining about themselves. It means that we as human beings are capable of doing anything.

Originally published at https://discover.hubpages.com on May 10, 2021.