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“Title”(also known as the discovery of the Ambivert)

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It seems everything in life needs a title. Job title. Book titles. Personal titles like Miss, Mrs., Ms., Ma’am… This blog post I’m in the process of writing certainly cannot be posted without having a title. How would anyone know what I’m writing about!? Not that anyone is reading any of this anyway, but for my ego’s sake, let’s all pretend I have a million followers and these sporadic posts are revered as some of the best writing of the 21st century.

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Anywhoo, it’s no surprise then that people’s personalities are often given titles as well. We are labeled as having a “clingy” or “addictive” personality. Articles have been written on how to “Analyze Someone’s Personality Based On The Titles Of Their Pinterest Boards.” No, but really. According to this, I am “slightly disorganized, late to things pretty often, but it’s part of my charm and I’m the Phoebe of my friend group.” This is actually all true so kudos to whomever wrote that article, but I digress.

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Regardless of the various titles or labels, our society sometimes gets stuck on squeezing ourselves into these made up boxes that help us identify ourselves and the world around us. In the past year, I’ve noticed there are exactly 16 boxes to put ourselves in and they come in the form of the Myers-Briggs type tests. This introspective self-report questionnaire bases personality on the typological theory proposed by Carl Jung who speculated that there are four principal psychological functions by which humans experience the world – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. To me, asking someone if they’re an INTJ or an ESFP is almost the equivalent of asking what their sign is… (but if you’re wondering, I’m an ENFP.)

webcomics269-puns-signHowever, this is where the terms introvert and extrovert come into play. I had always thought of myself as an introverted extrovert. I love people and consider myself to be social but also need to hole up in my room to recharge my proverbial battery. So today I was surprised and quite pleased to learn a new word: Ambivert.

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WHAT?! There’s a word for how I felt?! There’s a shiny new title I can give myself when I have to describe how I am and the way I interact with others in this world? Why have I never been introduced to this word before now? I mean, it’s 2016 people! I know this might not be a big deal to anyone else but I have to say, my mind was kind of blown.

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This opened up so many doors in my brain. I wanted to shout it from the rooftops! I’M AN AMBIVERT! The extroverted part of me would actually do something like this if it didn’t sound so much like I was drunkenly screaming, “I’m a pervert!” or “Amber Alert!” There’s even a convenient and gif filled Buzzfeed article that helps you figure out if you might be an ambivert too! Thank God for Buzzfeed’s listicles.

But lets go back to one of my original questions: why have I never heard of this term before 2016? It’s been around for a while. Does it go back to the nice, neat boxes we try to put people in? Are we more inclined to check a box rather than look at things as if they are on a spectrum where we are constantly moving from one end to the other?

I don’t pretend to have the answers but I did enjoy this article on the matter and hope that this knowledge might help someone else on their journey of self-discovery. Yay for a new year and yay for a new title! Ambiverts are awesome!

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Cheers,

Nena



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