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    This document discusses the differences between introverts and extroverts. It notes that introverts gain energy from internal sources and small group interactions, while extroverts gain energy from large groups and external interactions. While extroverts have advantages in our extroverted society, the document argues that introverts have the "upper hand" due to traits like self-awareness, self-reliance, and an ability to adapt to different situations. It provides examples showing how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted introverts' strengths in isolation while challenging extroverts accustomed to external socializing. Ultimately, it concludes that introverts have more subtle advantages over extroverts in issues focused on individuals.

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    This document discusses the differences between introverts and extroverts. It notes that introverts gain energy from internal sources and small group interactions, while extroverts gain energy from large groups and external interactions. While extroverts have advantages in our extroverted society, the document argues that introverts have the "upper hand" due to traits like self-awareness, self-reliance, and an ability to adapt to different situations. It provides examples showing how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted introverts' strengths in isolation while challenging extroverts accustomed to external socializing. Ultimately, it concludes that introverts have more subtle advantages over extroverts in issues focused on individuals.

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    This document discusses the differences between introverts and extroverts. It notes that introverts gain energy from internal sources and small group interactions, while extroverts gain energy from large groups and external interactions. While extroverts have advantages in our extroverted society, the document argues that introverts have the "upper hand" due to traits like self-awareness, self-reliance, and an ability to adapt to different situations. It provides examples showing how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted introverts' strengths in isolation while challenging extroverts accustomed to external socializing. Ultimately, it concludes that introverts have more subtle advantages over extroverts in issues focused on individuals.

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    This document discusses the differences between introverts and extroverts. It notes that introverts gain energy from internal sources and small group interactions, while extroverts gain energy from large groups and external interactions. While extroverts have advantages in our extroverted society, the document argues that introverts have the "upper hand" due to traits like self-awareness, self-reliance, and an ability to adapt to different situations. It provides examples showing how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted introverts' strengths in isolation while challenging extroverts accustomed to external socializing. Ultimately, it concludes that introverts have more subtle advantages over extroverts in issues focused on individuals.

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    Jenkins, 1

    Ruth Jenkins

    Professor Schreiner

    ENG 101 Expository Writing

    1 November 2021

    The Upper Hand Introverts Possess

    Introverts and extroverts are different in how they receive and give energy from and to

    various sources. Introverts get their energy from internal sources and small group interactions.

    Extroverts get their energy from large groups and external sources. The differences between

    introverts and extroverts identify and are aware of because they are traits of our personality

    that impact how we socialize. Being labeled an introvert o an extrovert is not the way we are

    defined or the term that is the instruction for how we are to operate as human beings.

    However, it gives us the tools to understand where the energy behind our actions derives.

    Introverts and extroverts are comparable in that they both want to be loved and valued, and

    they both value their relationships; they differ in several different ways. Introverts find

    themselves drained by social gatherings and extroverts gaining energy from socializing, while

    introverts prefer working in quiet, independent environments, and extroverts thrive in team-

    oriented work settings. Although we live in an extroverted world, introverts have the upper

    hand and have more indistinct advantages than extroverts.

    The energy we need to go about our day-to-day lives varies from introvert to extrovert

    energy, but most people identify more strongly with one side than the other. Just like any other

    characteristic or personality trait, there is no way. When taking personality tests through Myers
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    Briggs, the test will rate you on a scale of one hundred, letting you know how much of one more

    you are than the other. You could be 70% introverted and 30% extroverted or vice versa. There

    is the option of falling nearly in the middle and being an "ambivert," which identifies as an

    introvert and an extrovert with the same amount of conviction, but it is a rare case. Some people

    are very aware of the importance of knowing the two distinctions between introverts and

    extroverts, but some do not, even though it will aid you in becoming more self-aware.

    Introverts know they are introverts due to the social observations made about not being

    able to fit in. After all, they do not blend into the majority because most people identify as

    extroverts. You do not usually have to explain your extroversion to a fellow extrovert because

    we live in a very extroverted society catered to extroverts' way of socializing, making the world

    aware of what an extrovert conveys. Although extroverts have the upper hand of living in a

    society catered to the way they find energy, introverts have the upper hand at self-awareness and

    self-reliance that guide them to being better individuals. Introverts are typically slower to speak,

    introspective, and a little more reserved due to the pull of needing to look inward. For the most

    part, being an introvert looked down apart and less desired than being an extrovert. Although it is

    not accurate because introverts make their situations joyful, Introverts' desires focus on

    surrounding themselves with small groups and feeling secure.

    Extroverts have society catered to them, so it is much easier for them to interact with the

    world around them. In "The Introvert Advantage," Marti Laney brings up several different

    observations of how people view and define extroverts. She states, "Our cultural values of

    extroverts" in the very introduction of the book. The author brings up one example of how

    psychologist David Myers did a study concluding that proves extroverts prove as being "happier"

    than introverts. She responds by saying, "Introverts do not describe happiness the same way, so
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    they are perceived as unhappy." Extroverts lack self-sufficiency and depend on others to give

    them the energy needed to feel as though they are thriving. Most days, it will serve an extrovert

    well to be a social seeking being until tasked with adjusting to events as catastrophic as a global

    pandemic like the one we just went through in 2020. Looking for connections through external

    forces was not very tangible for the year we went through, although many people stuck to their

    problematic habits, which led to the spread of Covid when looking for external connections. The

    urge to be in large groups did not serve you well as an individual in a crisis requiring you to keep

    to yourself and avoid spreading a highly contagious disease.

    Living in an extroverted world means that we have been socialized to interact with

    systems that are catered to extroverts. Being in college is widely catered to extroverts because

    many events advertise large gatherings, the cafeteria is set up for groups of three minimum, and

    classroom activities typically involve group skills of some kind. It is much easier for extroverts

    to socialize in nearly any situation that would be more trivial for introverts to experience.

    Introverts have the upper hand at adapting to many different situations due to their inability to

    socialize the way the majority would. The most prominent time nearly all Americans exhibited

    introverted traits was during the pandemic's beginning, which has also carried into the rest of this

    year. The focus was stressed for us to be in tiny groups and make the best use of our time in

    isolation, which served the introverts well but greatly challenged the extroverts. When it comes

    to everyday life and going into most public situations, extroverts seem to have the most

    advantages. Ultimately, when it comes to issues focused on individuals, the advantage is on

    those who know how to be more introspective. Although we live in an extroverted world,

    introverts have the upper hand and have more indistinct advantages than extroverts.

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