Introversion, when embraced, is a wellspring of riches. It took me years to acknowledge this simple reality, to claim my home, and to value all it offers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.
I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.
The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
I've always been kind of an introvert growing up.
By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals.
Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.
I was always a strong personality. I was never an introvert.
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.