194. Is It Okay to Be an Introvert?

No Stupid Questions

社会与文化

2024-05-05

35 分钟
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What’s the difference between being introverted and being shy? What are extroverts so cheerful about? And does Angela’s social battery ever run out? Take the Big Five inventory: freakonomics.com/bigfive

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  • Freud.

  • All you think about is sex.

  • I'm Angela Duckworth.

  • I'm Mike Mann, and you're listening to.

  • No stupid questions today on the show.

  • Why does society prefer extroverts?

  • And do we need introverts?

  • I don't think you have the same manic level of, like, bounce around like a bunny rabbit energy that I sometimes seem to have.

  • Angela, today we are talking about extraversion, which is the next trait in the big five personality series that we are doing right now.

  • And I'm super excited about this one.

  • E is for extraversion.

  • Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point.

  • She said in a very extroverted way.

  • I did not know that we were reading a children's book, but I love it.

  • Well, Mike, I got a five out of five on extroversion.

  • When I took the big five personality.

  • Inventory on our website, I got a 4.67.

  • It's pretty high.

  • I think that over time, my extraversion has constricted a little bit, but we'll get into that.

  • It's shrunk.