Posted by Sharlee (61.9.208.171) on July 30, 2003 at 05:53:26:
In Reply to: "Extroverted"!?? posted by Bartholomew (67.75.10.164) on July 30, 2003 at 03:01:17:
> Literally, "extroverted" means "turned outward." In practice it means "turned towards people." What are psychologists trying to say? "We are the outside; we are the universe," is what they are trying to say.
### I'm not a psychologist but that is not my understanding of what psychologists are trying to say. How do you draw this conclusion?
Extroverts externalise their thinking; introverts internalise their thinking. Therefore a lot of what extroverts are saying is thinking out aloud based on bouncing back perspectives from the outside world and they process it as they go. Introverts take the outside world observations in and do their thought processing inside. There are strengths and weaknesses to both lots of processing. A common misunderstanding from introverts on extrovert thinking is that the extroverts mind is already made up and cannot be changed but that is not the case at all as they are simply processing options out loud. A common misunderstanding from extroverts on intorovert thinking is to not allow introverts time to process the information and then not realising that the single statement that they make on a subject is very significant having been the result of a lot of internal processing. Extroverts might mistake that statement for a casual observation that an extrovert might make in processing the same information.
Sharlee 1w2