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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
As an introvert, I think you hit the nail on the head with this one! Thanks for sharing!
Indeed. It doesn’t make sense to me why people think that those who prefer to be alone would be lonely.
Preferring to be alone just means that you think it’s better than being with people. That doesn’t mean you’re not lonely anyway.
I think you’re confused about what “lonely” is.
Twice as nice as mice on rice
(Sorry)
And in the upper left: the Deeply Depressed.
I think Extroverts would be the y=x line on this one, honestly.
I always thought of myself as an introvert because I preferred to be alone. Then a few things happened and being by myself constantly was killing me. So…I’m not sure I agree with this one. I’m more on the fence.
Theres a thing call ambiverts which sit on the fence like you.
We are social creatures; people need other people to be people. Just how many, well that depends on the individual. “No man or woman is an island …”
I’m an extroverted introvert (I recharge in my alone time, but I strike up conversations with perfect strangers), but my wife is an introverted extrovert (she loves parties & nightclubs, and gets cabin fever easily, but has trouble approaching people for conversation). It’s a strange fence we ride.
But, Westicle, being an introvert doesn’t necessarily mean you prefer to be alone, and vice versa — it’s also about what kinds of interaction you prefer, and how many people you can enjoy being around at a time.
When Jung came up with these generalisations, he did not seriously expect anyone to decided that they were one way or another. We gravitate between introversion and extroversion on a sliding and relative scale. So, sorry that my first post here is to say; “Twaddle!” … but this is … uhhh … twaddle! :)
No, it’s temporary on a per-person basis, based on your “facts” (which, by the way, don’t apply to everyone).
YES. Thank you! This is perfect. I may have to get it on my headstone.
Forgive me if I am wrong but I think the extrovert point is in the wrong place if you are trying to imply that it is lonely at the top or that sometimes the most highly extroverted are the loneliest people.
It should be in the upper left. So that an extrovert with little solitude (i.e. who is around people a lot) is highly lonely. As it currently stands it says “A person who isn’t around people a lot is lonely.” Which is probably true for an introvert.
Also if you change extrovert to upper left it makes the 2 types diametrically opposed to each other. The current setup seems to indicate some kind of commonality by being on the same x value. Which if that is intentional…carry on.
I meant for an extrovert.
No, not really. The graph is saying (or is supposed to say…) that extroverts are lonely when they are alone (that is, by themselves), and introverts are not lonely when they are alone.
Elsewhere in these comments, people have qualified this by using larger values for “alone”, eg the ideal being one or two friends for an introvert and twenty or thirty friends and acquaintances for extroverts.
(Apologies to extroverts who disagree with my extrovert numbers, I can only say that I wouldn’t know from experience)
How about melancholic instead of introverts and sanguine instead of extroverts. I am not so sure though where cholerics and phlegmatics stand.
Don’t worry guest, the phlegmatics don’t care and the cholerics will soon tell you where everybody stands… :)