The Gifted Introvert By Lesley Sword
Douglas Eby
Writer/online publisher on emotional health, creative people, personal growth psychology, high sensitivity, giftedness, and more. M.A./Psychology. I am highly sensitive & 2E, among other facets.
By Lesley Sword, Gifted and Creative Services Australia.?
Western civilisation today is dominated by the extravert viewpoint.?This is because extraverts outnumber introverts 3 to 1, are more vocal than introverts and are more understandable than introverts.
[NOTE by me, Douglas Eby: according to newer research, the ratio is more like 50/50.]
However, while introverts are a minority group in society, they form the majority of gifted people.
Moreover, it appears that introversion increases with intelligence so that more than 75% of people with an IQ above 160 are introverted.
Introversion and extraversion are personality types: two complementary ways of operating in the world.
People have both introversion and extraversion in their personalities and so are not limited either to the inner world or the outer world.
But they have a natural preference for either introversion or extraversion rather like a preference for right or left handedness. For example some of you reading this can’t wait to get to the practical applications: you are looking at it from the extravert’s standpoint.
Other readers are more interested in the insights that will help them understand themselves and human nature in general: you are seeing it from the introvert point of view.
Essential Differences Between Introverts And Extraverts
* This is a chart - see it and read more in source article: The Gifted Introvert
The image at top is from my article Being Creative and Introverted, Shy or Highly Sensitive in the Arts.