Introverts Extroverts and Ambiverts
hello
contrary to popular belief i’ve always
been a shy kid
from the earliest time in my life where
i could remember i would always go out
of my way to get out of
any form of social interaction it just
felt like a game to me of constantly
trying to know
what to say how to say it and when to
say it
it was too much for little me to handle
now fast forward to today not much has
changed
though i have learned to project myself
better i still don’t understand social
cues
what even are those and why do they
change depending on the group of people
when you dap someone up is it like a
fist bump a slap clutch or is it like
i don’t know it changes right either way
i don’t understand these things i never
have and
frankly i never wanted to
that’s how i’ve always been now i still
remember the day where i heard the word
introvert for the first time at first
i thought it meant to do something on
whether or not you were an innie or an
audi but
to my surprise it wasn’t
but it ended up being a word that
perfectly described me
introvert a person who enjoys more
being with their thoughts than being
with other people now little me was
astounded he was like
wow i sure do love thinking about
thinking
and i really am quiet and then boom
i was exposed to the world of human
psychology and personality
such then was born eamonn the introvert
now i claim to be an introvert but some
of you may be wondering
if he was really an introvert why is he
giving a ted talk to his entire school
at risk of failing of being completely
shamed for the rest of his high school
career
and to that i say good point
but there is more to it
now i’ve learned a lot about human
psychology and personality over
you know the the spans of my life uh and
i think i’d like to share some of that
with you today
so first of all there are 16
distinct personality types that’s a lot
and they’re held under the blankets of
introversion
and extroversion now because i’m sure
everyone here has the time for this and
they care about it so much
i will be going through each of the 16
different types allocating around 25
minutes for each in alphabetical order
i’m joking if any of you weren’t mad at
that then
i’m sorry uh
no today we’re going to be focusing on a
brief summary of the categories
introverts and extroverts because those
i’m sure many people are familiar with
already
but maybe people don’t understand it
completely so we’re going to go into
them
now first off introverts
now introverts tend to be more quiet
they’re more reserved
they don’t go out of their way to speak
to people and they often spend a lot of
time thinking or reading
now though this may seem a lot like not
very good in terms of you know being a
go-getter
it’s actually really good for emotional
health introverts because they have a
lot more time to think and be with
themselves
they have a lot more time to reflect on
what has happened and how it made them
feel
they’re much more emotional creatures
than their counterparts and that’s what
i think what makes introverts really
good about them is that they’re more in
tune with their emotions
now introverts though they’re shy
pretty smart at least in my experience
maybe i’m an exception
but either way some of the really
popular introverts
in this world some are probably not
surprising
for example we’ve got albert einstein
very popular introvert
bill gates and even the lizard himself
mark zuckerberg
so what about extroverts well now
extroverts are basically the polar
opposite
they aren’t shy they’re outgoing and
they say what they want to say
they’re really appreciated by society
because they’re a go-getter
and they like to speak out they have a
lot of friends because
they’re socially attractive you know
they recharge
their social battery not by being alone
but by being with other people
introverts they got to go home after a
long day with the friends
extroverts if they spent a lot of time
alone they got to go outside
that’s the thing they’re completely
opposites when it comes to how they
treat
being social some popular extroverts are
the goat muhammad ali steve jobs
and your royal highness marui antoinette
so some of you may be thinking right now
okay
now this is cool i’ve learned a little
bit more on
kind of what introverts and extroverts
are if you haven’t learned what these
were before now i know exactly what they
are
but some of you may be thinking okay i
know this but how can i even
you know use this information it’s great
that i know what i am but
big whoop well luckily
i have come to save you with an
explanation on how you can use these
things
introducing the eight cognitive
functions
now there are eight of them but really
there are just four of them
with all four being represented by an
extroverted side and an introverted side
and these four cognitive functions are
feeling thinking
sensation and intuition now these four
function describes how the brains of
introverts or extroverts work
by understanding these things you can
understand more about yourself
and how you apply in certain situations
and by using this knowledge
you can give yourself a leg up in life
by understanding what works for you
and what doesn’t now i’ll be going into
each
of introverted and extroverted for each
of these functions so you can better
understand it
so first off feeling now introverts
like i said before are much more
emotional creatures
you know the term they’re in their feels
that’s basically what introverts are
they get time to be alone they get time
to think and they think more about
how things made them feel rather than
the actions that caused it
introverted feeling is really associated
with understanding other people’s
emotions as well
because if you can understand your own
emotions so you can also understand your
uh the others
in situations where there’s emotional
conflict they often can understand other
people but
the one thing about introverts that is
somewhat of a downfall is that they
don’t act on it
they’re shy now extroverts on the other
hand
are somewhat of the opposite while
they aren’t as in tune with their
emotions they they feel
very generally they’re pretty broad and
they’re straightforward with how they
think
that leads them to neglecting personal
relationships on a deep level
with their family and friends but often
their feeling is associated with
connecting things that they see in the
outer world rather than the inner world
moving on to thinking introverts
well they think a lot they have a lot of
time to think
but that makes them overthink
they focus more on specifics and details
of situations
and they often spend a lot of time in
their head trying to decipher things
because the further you go thinking
about something
the more you’ll have to think about they
want to have a direct answer and they
want details
which means that in subjects like stem
they do well
but in subjects like humanities where
you have to be quick-witted not the best
extroverts well they’re the opposite
they aren’t very specific creatures
they don’t think about things in very
strong details rather they look
at the general idea of things they look
at their goals and they pursue it
very relatively you know broad that
makes them more efficient because they
don’t focus on the nitpickiness of tasks
but that also makes them
like less accurate so in terms of doing
tasks
maybe extroverts could be faster at them
but as for how accurate it is if maybe
you’re doing a lab report you can see an
introvert would typically do better
sensation now introverts as they’re much
more
in tune with their emotions when they
feel something whether or not
it’s a negative feeling emotion or maybe
if they’re punched in the face
they don’t think about getting punched
in the face they think about how it made
them feel
now i know that seems somewhat
far-fetched but it’s true
introverts care a lot more about the
emotions behind things and
through sensation they use emotions they
felt in the past and relate them to the
ones that they feel today
extroverts they don’t do this
extroverts tend to be more
look see thing it happen yeah there
it’s a lot more caveman like i guess but
they more just see things and if they
feel things they more think about the
action rather than the emotions behind
it if you punch an extrovert in the face
he’s going to be mad at you because you
punch him in the face and not because it
made him feel bad
and intuition like i said before
introverts
are super detailed and because of that
they become really nitpicky
and they overthink things a lot it makes
them less efficient
their intuition is very similar to this
they look at things but they don’t take
it for granted what they see straight
away they look at it and say
what else is going on here philosophers
tend to be introverts now extroverts on
the other hand
they see something and instead of
looking deeper into that they tend to
connect it to things in their
environment if they see something happen
they look around okay what else in the
outer world influences it
now you can summarize all of these into
one general idea that introverts are
more detailed
specific and nitpicky while extroverts
are more outer worldly
less internal and more straightforward
this explains why when you’re looking at
stem subjects
that introverts have statistically done
better because all of the
subject material is detail-oriented and
it’s linear and unchanging
while in humanities extroverts do better
because there’s variability
and things often change also public
speaking
now this is really cool i’m sure
everyone’s astounded in their seats
right now but you may be wondering
how can i even apply this information at
all
you also may be wondering wait
i have an extroverted trait but i also
have an introverted trait
shouldn’t it be one or the other where
am i if i’m not an introvert or an
expert if i’m both what does that make
me
well luckily i have come to save you
with an explanation you can thank me
later so
introducing the child of extroversion in
introversion
amba version amber version is basically
anything in between being an introvert
or an extrovert
for example if i’m left and right-handed
i’m ambidextrous
so if i’m introverted and extroverted
i’m
ambiverted yeah thanks thanks class all
right
so according to a five-point scale
measuring the personality of people in
2014 with around 3 000 people
it was shown that a small percentage of
the population identified with
one strong end of the spectrum either
being introverted or extroverted while
most fell somewhere in the middle
this proves that most people in society
aren’t an introvert or an expert
there is somewhere in between and this
can be determined by the social
situations that you get put in
the circumstances of your school i know
that coming to brentwood has made me
more of an extrovert
i’m an introvert by nature but i’m
giving you a speech right now because
brentwood has conditioned me to do so
it’s changed me but maybe we should go
into more of an explanation of this
so there’s this thing known as the
myers-briggs personality test
and it’s a test consists of 93 analysis
questions where it tells you exactly
what your personality is based off of
how you answer it’s really useful
because not only can you understand more
about yourself
but it also tells us something else
there is a concept known as
test retest validity and it’s the idea
that if you take a test now
in three years in the future you should
be able to get the exact same results
but when used on the myers-briggs
personality test
it showed that it didn’t have test
retest validity so what does this mean
it means that not only is personality
changing
but realistically everyone is an
ambivert you now
can be miles different from you 10 years
from now
and i think that’s really cool now
what have we talked about today well
we’ve talked about a lot of things but
what we’ve established is more of the
idea of
what makes an introvert and what makes
an extrovert
we’ve talked about how personality is
always changing
and it’s everlasting and you today can
be miles different from you in the
future
we learned about the eight cognitive
functions and how by understanding which
functions apply to you
you can give yourself a leg up in life
by picking situations that match your
personality
now some of you have goals that fit with
your personality
i want to go to university for probably
stem
and since i’m innately an introvert it
works out for my personality
but this works both ways
see if i was an introvert trying to
become an
extrovert because i wanted to become an
actor it’s important that with the
knowledge you have from this
talk today that you can identify what of
your characteristics don’t support your
goals
and what characteristics you want by
understanding yourself
is to understand the world around you
and it can it can help you understand
your future
and the path to take altogether to
achieve it
everyone is an ambivert that’s a fact
but whether or not what side of the
spectrum you on
is completely determined to what actions
you take and where you are
in life but to end off
in the famous words of one of the most
influential figures i believe in modern
society
not that guy this guy shrek
onions have layers
ogres have layers and we humans
were ogres because we got layers
thank you