The Introvert and The Extrovert (Collaboration)

Contrary to popular belief of my students, I am actually an introvert. My brain works in a silently segmented reality, organizing thoughts and ideas behind the lines. I process several thousand things throughout the day, regardless of my physical expressions of said processes. Even my better half, Allison, who teaches students with learning disabilities, has trouble seeing that sometimes. She is most certainly an extrovert. But that is part of why we work so well together. We compliment each other.

The world needs that illuminated. Not my personal relationship status; rather, we need to see the differences in brain functionalities between individuals. We need to highlight each one’s strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, we need to find out how to effectively collaborate using these functionalities. Only then will we reach a truer potential as a global society; one who is ready to tackle worldly issues from all angles.

Introverts and extroverts were meant to work together, contrary to linguistic diction. We were meant to see the world in its entirety and account for rounding the perspective. Otherwise, evolution wouldn’t have brought us to this point.

According to Jung, as ATTN.com reports, “…introverts gravitate towards their inner lives while extroverts are more interested in the outside world.”