{"id":6762,"date":"2013-06-27T08:50:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2015-05-05T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:50:33","slug":"ambiversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2013\/06\/27\/ambiversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambiversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a term I picked up somewhere in grade school that, having never heard since, wondered if I had made it up. In the meantime I’ve not shied from using it to describe myself. I am an ambirvert<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ha! As I type this, even my spell checker doesn’t recognize the word.<\/p>\n

But I look further and do find a definition: \u201cA personality trait including the qualities of both introversion and extroversion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It continues: \u201cExtraversion and introversion\u00a0<\/em>are typically understood as a single continuum. Thus, to be high on one is necessarily to be low on the other. That said, people fluctuate in their behavior all the time, and even extreme introverts and extraverts do not always act consistently.”<\/em><\/p>\n

More people I’ve talked with lately have described the same about themselves. We may be either extravert or introvert, but at times operate in the other mode.\u00a0What it doesn’t mean is, “always in the middle.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I know this about myself: When I’ve had about all I can handle of people I do whatever I can to get away. But I can also be alone too long and after awhile, come out of my cave and go looking for somebody to talk to.<\/p>\n

As I understand it, the difference between extraversion and introversion is what supplies our energy, and what drains it. If you’re generally energized by being around people you’re an extravert; if you rather prefer your own company, then you’re in the Introvert’s Club.<\/p>\n

(They rarely meet.)<\/p>\n

My sister who is a glorious extravert, once in an assembly of assorted types blurted\u00a0out, \u201cIf we don’t talk, how will you know what we’re thinking?\u201d to which a classic introvert answered, \u201cWhat makes you think we care?\u201d<\/p>\n

Everybody laughed, which is another point: Don’t take yourself too seriously.<\/p>\n

But even talkative and expressive Sue has her introverted side. Being a writer and speaker, she needs her solitary time, at least to prepare.<\/p>\n

And so it is with her brother, the one now writing to you. My continuum is very wide. There are times when I need absolute aloneness and other times when I’m the life of the party. The interesting thing is, those at the party know little about the other side, since they’re not there.<\/p>\n

If you recognize these traits in yourself, opposite preferences operating at different times, then you, like me, qualify for the Amberverts Club.<\/p>\n

We meet occasionally.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a term you may or may not know, but useful . . . as it may describe you. If so, welcome to the club. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10707,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/10707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}