What Introverts and Extroverts Can Learn From Each Other
Going against your instincts can help make you happier.
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A year before the pandemic changed all of our lives, a friend sent me a link to a based on academic research that rates your personality traits on a numeric scale. He was particularly keen to know my extroversion score, to see if the test was accurate. His results had shown that he scored at the 15th percentile. He sent it to me as the most extroverted person he knows. Sure enough, I scored at the 96th percentile.