Introvert

Identifying an introvert

As a first thing you need to know is that try to find an introvert around you. I will give u brief description about Introvert in this part... Let's begin......

Introverts tend to spend a lot of time fine tuning and honing skills that their extrovert cousins like to avoid. Because of this, they tend to make up 60% of the gifted population. Way to go smarty pants! Introverts seem to excel in reading, writing, and any activity that allows them solitude.

When you think about being an introvert the first characteristic that comes to mind is someone who is shy. Contrary to popular belief shyness is not the main diagnostic criteria behind being identified as an introvert. Introverts just generally prefer solitude to a group of people (and that's totally OK). They crave alone time and being around a group of people often drains them of their energy. It is for this reason that after a large gathering the stressed out introvert needs time alone to regroup and refocus.

Often time's introverts are sociable creatures to a select few individuals. This includes their friends and their family since there is a familiarity there. They are very creative beings and will often join in on a conversation to shed light on a subject rather than talk about trivial topics (the true introvert could care less about entertainment news). Often, they will think through their reasoning's before joining in on the conversation, and even then the conversation is limited to a select few individuals.

Life for the introvert is just as fulfilling as it is for the extrovert. They do not feel they lack social interaction; they are not "loners" of any nature. They believe that conversations with a large group of people or group activities are simply overrated.

People are frequently unaware that they're introverts -- especially if they're not shy -- because they may not realize that being an introvert is about more than just cultivating time alone. Instead, it can be more instructive to pay attention to whether they're losing or gaining energy from being around others, even if the company of friends gives them pleasure.

"Introversion is a basic temperament, so the social aspect -- which is what people focus on -- is really a small part of being an introvert," Dr. Marti Olsen Laney, psychotherapist and author of "The Introvert Advantage," . "It affects everything in your life."

1)Introverts are notoriously small talk-phobic, as they find idle chatter to be a source of anxiety, or at least annoyance. For many quiet types, chitchat can feel disingenuous."Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people"

2)Ever feel like an outsider in the middle of social gatherings and group activities, even with people you know?"If you tend to find yourself feeling alone in a crowd, you might be an introvert"

3)Networking (read: small-talk with the end goal of advancing your career) can feel particularly disingenuous for introverts, who crave authenticity in their interactions."Networking is stressful if we do it in the ways that are stressful to us"

4)Do you have a penchant for philosophical conversations and a love of thought-provoking books and movies? If so, you're a textbook introvert."Introverts like to jump into the deep end"

5)While extroverts tend to get bored easily when they don't have enough to do, introverts have the opposite problem -- they get easily distracted and overwhelmed in environments with an excess of stimulation."Extroverts are commonly found to be more easily bored than introverts on monotonous tasks, probably because they require and thrive on high levels of stimulation"

6)One of the most fundamental characteristics of introverts is that they need time alone to recharge their batteries. Whereas an extrovert might get bored or antsy spending a day at home alone with tea and a stack of magazines, this sort of down time feels necessary and satisfying to an introvert.

7)Introverts can be excellent leaders and public speakers -- and although they're stereotyped as being the shrinking violet, they don't necessarily shy away from the spotlight. Performers like , Christina Aguilar and Emma Watson all , and an estimated have introverted personalities. Instead, an introvert might struggle more with meeting and greeting large groups of people on an individual basis.

8)Whenever possible, introverts tend to avoid being surrounded by people on all sides."We're likely to sit in places where we can get away when we're ready to"

9)Do you start to get tired and unresponsive after you've been out and about for too long? It's likely because you're trying to conserve energy. Everything introverts do in the outside world causes them to expend energy, after which they'll need to go back and replenish their stores in a quiet environment. Short of a quiet place to go, many introverts will resort to zoning out.

10)It's true that opposites attract, and introverts frequently gravitate towards outgoing extroverts who encourage them to have fun and not take themselves too seriously."Introverts are sometimes drawn to extroverts because they like being able to ride their 'fun bubble'.."

11)The dominant brain pathways introverts use is one that allows you to focus and think about things for a while, so they're geared toward intense study and developing expertise

12)The upside of being overwhelmed by too much stimuli is that introverts often have a keen eye for detail, noticing things that may escape others around them. Research that introverts exhibit increased brain activity when processing visual information, as compared to extroverts.

13)A found that introverts tend to have lower blood pressure than their extroverted counterparts.

14)Introverts observe and take in a lot of information, and they think before they speak, leading them to appear wise to others."Introverts tend to think hard and be analytical"."That can make them seem wise."

15)Neurologically speaking, things like huge parties just aren't your thing. Extroverts and introverts differ significantly in how their brains process experiences through "reward" centers.

Researchers demonstrated this phenomenon by giving Ritalin -- the ADHD drug that stimulates dopamine production in the brain -- to introverted and extroverted college students. They found that extroverts were more likely to associate the feeling of euphoria achieved by the rush of dopamine with the environment they were in. Introverts, by contrast, did not connect the feeling of reward to their surroundings. The study "suggests that introverts have a fundamental difference in how strongly they process rewards from their environment, with the brains of introverts weighing internal cues more strongly than external motivational and reward cues,"

Many introverted children come to believe that there's something "wrong" with them if they're naturally less outspoken and assertive than their peers. Introverted adults often say that as children, they were told to come out of their shells or participate in more activities

Introverts can move around their introverted "set point" which determines how they need to balance solitude with social activity. But when they move too much -- possibly by over-exerting themselves with too much socializing and busyness -- they get stressed and need to come back to themselves, according Olsen Laney. This may manifest as going through periods of heightened social activity, and then balancing it out with a period of inwardness and solitude.

"There's a recovery point that seems to be correlated with how much interaction you've done," "We all have our own private cycles."

I think you guys may have got a picture of how a introvert is......... i wish you identify that are you introvert or extrovert. one more interesting fact about introvert is that they are called as old souls............

In next part i will explain you guys more about introvert till then ask questions to yourself and stay happy...