Reflections on EXT/INT-version
I think we've essentialized the categories of 'introvert'
and 'extrovert' to the point of absurdity. It's not as if we received
an INT v. an EXT stamp at birth. We live in circumstances and and are formed by the pressures of a real, living, and dynamic social situation and our basic coping mechanisms on a daily
basis reflect these, as we must fit ourselves to its pressures. Seeing our own basic relating tendencies as intrinsic is kind of a
problematic way of looking at human behavior then. http://betweenletters.quora.com/How-to-Live-With-Introverts?ref=fb
It seems sometimes that all labels ultimately become self-fulfilling, "self"-reducing prophecies.
ReplyDeleteOften, we forget that we were the ones that labelled and that labels have expiry dates much like anything and everything else and they do reduce us because they negate our plastic and changing possibilities
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