Extrovert and introvert are the basic concepts of Carl Jung's theory. Today they are familiar to almost everyone. To put it simply, they characterize people as sociable and withdrawn. Who is more needed for energy balance?
People have been puzzled over how people are actually arranged since time immemorial. Hippocrates, Galen, Freud, Jung … Surely you noticed that some people are brave from birth, some are cowardly. There are hot-tempered, shy, sympathetic, there are leaders from the cradle and those who are only able to obey. People are individual, but there are qualities that all manifest themselves in the same way, they are called typical in psychology.
The classification of types according to Jung is especially interesting. He divided people into extroverts and introverts. Today, these concepts are already widely known, extroverts include sociable people, introverts - reserved.
Extroverts easily take root in society, become its inseparable part. They are easily influenced, follow the accepted foundations and are quite happy. All the energy of the extrovert is directed to people, objects, events. An introvert, on the other hand, absorbs energy and is guided by purely personal feelings and emotions. He lives in the inner world, which is much more important to him than the outer one. Knowledge received from the outside has no value in itself, it is important only if it matters for subjective reality.
Carl Jung gives a very rich example. With a cold snap, the extrovert, using information from outside (thermometer readings, news of the hydrometeorological center), dresses warmer. An introvert, having delved into his subjective concepts, decided that it is good for health to be tempered and dresses lightly.
What's better?
Both extroverts and introverts are needed to balance energy. It should be noted that a person cannot be alternately one or the other. But this does not mean that introverts are sitting in a dark room, and extroverts are always in public. Everyone needs both communication and minutes of solitude.
Interestingly, Jung argued that this character trait is innate, but not inherited. For example, an introverted child may be born in a family of extroverts, or vice versa. It will certainly not be easy. But retraining is not recommended. Since natural data are important for humans. Severe consequences can cause discord with oneself already in adulthood. Such people suffer from neuroses, they are constantly in search of themselves, unsuccessful. Therefore, it is not worth fighting with nature.
Only harmony is better
In the world, of course, extroverts are luckier and more successful. After all, this is sociability, openness, the ability to make and maintain useful connections - essential qualities for a successful career.
What about introverts? Jung gives an illustrative example on this occasion. When they say about a great discovery that it was made a hundred years ago, and learned only now, we can safely say that the scientist was a "complete" introvert.
But if there is an extrovert next to an introverted scientist, then society will find out about the discovery in a timely manner. So it turns out that each of them has its own purpose, balance, so to speak.
