Freud, all you think about is sex.

I'm Angela Duckworth.

I'm Mike Mann, and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, why does society prefer extroverts,

and do we need introverts?

I don't think you have the same manic level of like bounce around like a bunny rabbit energy that I sometimes seem to have. Angela, today we are talking about Extraversion, which is the next trait in the Big Five

Personality series that we are doing right now and I'm super excited about this one.

E is for extroversion, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point,

she said in a very extroverted way. I did not know that we were reading a

children's book but I love it. Well Mike I got a five out of five on extra

version when I took the big five personality inventory on our website.

I got a 4.67.

It's pretty high.

I think that over time my extra version has constricted a little bit but we'll get into that.

It's shrunk? Yes. Well before we forget our listeners I just looked and I think it's like over

10,000 listeners and counting have taken the

big five inventory on our website and so far the mean score is 3.23 and the national average is about 3.21 so just about the same as our

listeners. So I'm super extroverted. You are very very very extroverted you are very very extroverted do you think more is better when it comes

to extroversion well that Angela duckworth is the question today. So this came from

Aemon O'Reilly who said why is Extroversion considered the normal or

desired personality trait and introversion considered abnormal and non-conforming.

Is this an American cultural phenomenon?

...