Introversion-Extraversion
A collection of exegesis pertaining to attitudes (introversion and extraversion)
Exegeses on what Lenore Thomson might mean by extraversion and introversion, both as attitudes that people can take and as personality types.
Summary
Extraversion is focused on the the external (what is outside of the self), the "other" and Objective. Introversion is an attitude oriented inwards, towards the self and its Subjective ideals.
Truth and language reflect a choice: a choice of what you consider worth focusing on, or where your values, concerns, and cognitive capabilities lie
Truth is strictly a matter of management
Truth is having your mind attuned to reality--attuned to some "essence" that gives things unity and continuity
Truth and what statements refer to are capable of constant change as circumstances change or as more becomes revealed to you
Building and occupying a "cocoon", a set-up where you are in control and where the environment is highly adapted to you
Conforming yourself to reality as it exists right now: to shape yourself to fit the reality
"The game" in this exegesis refers to an external standard or framework (e.g. success, attractiveness, ethics, popularity, etc.).
Explore ideas and pursue goals without necessarily relating them to the game board
What matters to you--what you define as being of interest to you and meriting your attention--is the game
The game board stimulates you to explore or experience the world of what can be potentially explored or experienced. This is the world of archetypes.
The game offers things to gain, and you attempt to gain them. If something doesn't register on the game board, where everyone can see it, it doesn't seem relevant.
What is good is good, and that's why you do it. Negotiation has nothing to do with it.
Everything that someone does as an attempt to negotiate with others
Interacts by first asking permission to enter another person's space. Views each person as trying to understand and practice the good in his own way, and this process is not something to interfere with lightly.
Interact by putting something on the table for others to react to, whether they like it or not.
See things from a timeless perspective that enables you to criticize the social arena and its rules
The social arena you are in is a given; you try to figure out a way to fit into it
Willing to challenge the social arena even when it comes with a steep social price
You can't judge the rules of the social arena; you are in the social arena, and there are no thoughts to think except how to get around within the social arena, ways to do well in socially recognized ways, etc
To put all this another way, extraversion makes you a politician while introversion makes you a saint.
Place-your-Stakes
Your stake in the world is:
Embedded
Introversion and extraversion as judging ideas in the context of circumstance. Circumstance on this page refers to communal belief systems, frameworks of thinking, etc.
Extraverted function-attitudes trust in ideas rooted in circumstances and introverted function-attitudes are skeptical of ideas rooted in circumstances and vice-versa.
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