How to Be a Happy Introvert

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Society seems to prize the personality set of the extrovert. Here's how to play to your strengths if you're an introvert, by edwardsmft

The team's research studied more than 7,000 individuals from 28 societies and found that the correlation between extroversion and subjective well-being is much stronger when a person’s degree of extroversion matched the approximate degree of extroversion in their culture.

Four studies were conducted by Nathan Hudson and Brent Roberts of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to examine individuals’ to change their personality traits. They found that, staggeringly, in the West, 87 percent of people explicitly expressed a goal of becoming more extroverted.DaddyTroy, my grandfather, wasn’t much of a storyteller. In fact, he wasn’t much of a talker. He would give you fragments, a nasty-sounding cough, and then you were on your own. His stories were bits and pieces. You’d be lucky to get them here and there, out of order, over years, like a puzzle.

I’m a lot like DaddyTroy, and I like that. I sometimes cringe at my introvertedness and the ways others must perceive me as a result of it. But when I remember DaddyTroy, there is not one fabric of my being that thinks of anything but my love for him. That has helped me recognize that if he was totally OK just as he was, I’m probably OK, too.

 

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edwardsmft Playing devil’s advocate here, it would be good to see a guide for extroverts for a change, on how they can better appreciate us introverts ;)

edwardsmft Lol, as if I'd ever fake being an extrovert. I'm perfectly happy with my introversion, thank you very much.

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