Lately I’ve come to appreciate even more Carl Jung\u2019s ideas about introversion and extraversion, especially as I\u2019ve watched my own fluctuations of mental \u201cenergy.\u201d I get drained by external stimuli, distracted, overloaded, rather than energized by these sources; on the other hand, I am energized when I can process ideas through my own active creativity. This latter dynamic can seem extraverted because it is outgoing, interactive. I can teach, draw out others, lecture impromptu, dance, smile, and be very involved\u2014so for a while I thought I might be mixed extra- and introverted; but then I realized that these pseudo-extraverted activities were merely social vehicles for my own psychic energies finding expression.<\/p>\n
An example of this happened a few weeks ago when I was at Disneyland with my grandchildren and grandnephews. I enjoyed it, but as I\u2019ve become more mature, I notice differences in the qualities of enjoyment, both intensity and type. Compared to quieter, more introverted experiences, well, I didn\u2019t enjoy these rides at a deeper level in the same way or to the same degree. I also periodically felt overloaded and accommodated my need to withdraw from all the external stimuli: I brought along a little song book and read and sang some interesting songs to myself while waiting for the kids to come off a ride or while in a long-ish line waiting for a ride. I need this psychic energy coming from deep inside and through me as my source, while external sources of stimuli are a little draining. I realized that many people prefer this other channel and resonate better with it, and our tourism industry thrives because of this. I wondered how some of the kids at Disneyland were not just tired, but also cranky because they were more introverted and became fairly quickly saturated with external stimuli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lately I’ve come to appreciate even more Carl Jung\u2019s ideas about introversion and extraversion, especially as I\u2019ve watched my own fluctuations of mental \u201cenergy.\u201d I get drained by external stimuli, distracted, overloaded, rather than energized by these sources; on the other hand, I am energized when I can process ideas through my own active creativity. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}