"I don't trust him. He's too quiet."

"Mom, he's my boyfriend. He's cool. He's just shy."

"Yeah, why doesn't he speak up more? What's he hiding?" side eye 😒

Our home growing up had 9 PEOPLE LIVING IN IT. NINE!

Me + 5 siblings + 2 parents + 1 grandmother + endless guests = NEVER QUIET. 🤫

Heaven forbid you needed something; you'd have to bust out the neon flares 🌈 , blow an air horn 📣 , and break a window or body part 🦵 just to get any attention at all.

It's really no wonder I'm an extrovert.

But am I really? Or was it a product of my conditioning?

With more studies and focus on introverts (to my introvert readers - have you read Quiet yet?), there's been some blurriness around falling in one camp or the other - and how to understand what's what?

As usual, I think the answer is more nuanced - and with a more increased intention culturally on connection and understanding each other, this topic needed to be revisited.

And turns out there is SO much misunderstood about each one that I brought fan favorite (and UBER-introvert) Cindy Robinson back onto the Late Learner Podcast to go head-to-head.

We crowd-sourced some questions that were so fascinating and we both walked away with a completely different perspective than we thought.

Here are some of the questions we explored:

• Is this very topic an antiquated false dichotomy? 🧐

• Why do extroverts like to talk on the phone? ☎️

• Do introverts feel comfortable when there's silence in a conversation? 🤫

• What happens when your partners' introvert/extrovertism is opposite to you? 🗣️

• Do parents push extroversion on their kids? 😱

• FOMO 😮

• What each one is REALLY thinking (despite outward appearances)? 🧠

• Ambiverts? Is anyone really only one or the other? 🤷‍♀️

• So much more (I mean, just listen already) 🎧

And then there's the showdown where Cindy called me completely out on my complaints about some introverts' behavior. Whoops! 🙈

Listen here:

EP194: THE BATTLE ROYALE: EXTROVERTS V INTROVERTS

How would you describe yourself?

xo,

Allison

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