The I stands for I’m Smarter than You
As an INTP type, I totally agree with this new study:
Introverted children enjoy the internal world of thoughts, feelings and fantasies, and there’s a physiological reason for this. Researchers using brain scans have found introverts have more brain activity in general, and specifically in the frontal lobes. When these areas are activated, introverts are energized by retrieving long-term memories, problem solving, introspection, complex thinking and planning.
Extroverts enjoy the external world of things, people and activities. They have more activity in brain areas involved in processing the sensory information we’re bombarded with daily. Because extroverts have less internally generated brain activity, they search for more external stimuli to energize them.
I’m sorta mystified why the article paints introverts as this strange Other. I’d consider myself an introvert, and I think I socialized and developed pretty well. Heck, I’m not only an introvert but I was homeschooled. If anybody should have ended up screwy it should have been me. Last time I checked, I was pretty cool.
(via Slashdot)
November 29, 2005 at 9:22 am
Yeah. Me too. Introverted and homeschooled, yet still pretty cool.:up: Right on.
November 29, 2005 at 5:59 pm
As a fellow INTP, I have to agree. Though, I bet if both you and I took the tests over time, we’d both see a steady progression from I towards E. I’m still deep in the I category, but I get a bit closer to E the older and more socialized I become.
November 29, 2005 at 11:07 pm
And yet as an introvert I’m only getting socially well adjusted now. I blame SPU.
December 3, 2005 at 5:27 pm
INFP.
SteevAK is a strange Other, but not because he’s INTP.
SteevAK, come back.
March 21, 2006 at 10:51 am
I still have no idea if i’m an introvert or an extravert.
I seem to be something in the middle .
I love people and socializing but I also do like daydreaming:neutral: