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Not an extrovert or introvert? There’s a word for that. - National Geographic Premium (No paywall)

Over the years, when people have asked if I’m an introvert or an extrovert, I haven’t known what to say because I don’t identify fully with either personality type. It turns out I’m hardly alone. It’s true, I’m often reflective and introspective, that I prefer to hang out with people one-on-one or in small groups, and that I often crave time alone to recharge—all of which are characteristics of introverts. But I can also be outgoing and chatty at parties, as well as assertive and action-oriented in my professional life, qualities that are associated with extraversion.

Over the years, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has become a popular personality test throughout the world and it’s widely used in the workplace and educational settings. It classifies people into various types based on their scores on trait dimensions including extraversion vs. introversion, feeling vs. thinking, sensing vs. intuiting, and perceiving vs. judging. Since it was first published in 1975, the MBTI has popularized the concept of “personality types,” though Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung was the one who introduced the terms extraversion and introversion into psychology in the early 1900s.

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