What is up, daddy Gang?
It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with call her daddy, Katie Morton.
Welcome to call her daddy.
Thanks for having me.
I'm excited to be here.
Okay, daddy Gang, listen.
Katie is a licensed marriage and family therapist, YouTube creator, author, podcaster, and speaker.
I'm so excited for our conversation today to discuss introverts and extroverts and how those dynamics can play out in friendships, romantic relationships, at work, et cetera.
So, listen, I think people have an understanding, obviously, of, like, the basic meaning of introvert and extrovert.
But I don't think we always know how to respond when tricky situations arrive within our relationships.
So before we get into some different scenarios, just in case someone isn't completely familiar, can you explain what is the difference between someone who is introverted and someone who is extroverted?
Yeah, of course.
I think the easiest way to kind of discern in your brain, or at least for me, is to think of introverts as getting energy from spending time alone and extroverts getting energy from spending time with others.
And that applies to a lot of things, like making decisions.
Extroverts like to make those out loud, think out loud, you know, what about this?
And contemplate.
Introverts like to do it on their own, in their own head.
They can be more imaginative, more observational.
Extroverts are more engaged and gregarious.
Can someone have both introverted and extroverted tendencies?