People believe they're ambiverts because they're like, well, I feel like there's a part of me that's introverted and a part of me that's extroverted. And the answer is, yes, everybody is an ambivert. Amberversion is a sign of maturity. It's not just a psychological preference. A person who has such a strong preference for introversion or extroversion to a point where they can't do the other side. I'm talking about somebody who won't leave their house or somebody who will not take a minute to go inside their own

head. That's actually a sign of a lack of maturity, actually.

Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Jill Mark Witt. And I'm Antonia Dodge.

I have a question for you, Joel.

Another one. What do you mean another one? We just started podcasting. Oh. Like we literally just sat down

started podcasting. Fair enough. Ask away. Although I probably have asked you a question before in our

life together. So if that's what you mean, another one. Yet another one, Antonio. Man, how many are there? Do you ever stop? You just asked me if I wanted sugar in my tea. How many questions are you can ask me? Endless questions. Okay. I have a type related question for the podcast, Joel. Yes, let's go. All right. So the question is, why do so many extroverts believe they're introverts? First of all, is that true? Uh-huh. It is true. Okay. Yeah. Yes, it is true that a lot of extroverts believe they're introverts, yes. Well, I can tell you what I used to think. Okay. And how I've updated my thinking very recently, which is kind of the point of this podcast. Yeah. I used to think, well, people have missed, and this is still true, but I think I have more, more ways of thinking about it. We have more ways that we understand it. People, when they think about extroversion to introversion, it's in the public consciousness. Like, everybody, whether they know what it actually means or not, everybody believes they know what it means. Right.

Like that's, right?

100% of people believe that.

Yeah.

Anywhere in society, whether people know about introversion or extroversion, like what it really is,

everyone believes they know what it means.

Right.

And what most people I believe have mapped onto introversion, extraversion is that introverts like to be alone by themselves and extroverts like to be around people.

Yes.

That's basically the like the general consensus idea on what those two things mean.

Yes.

And I think when people use it, that's like when you're just, people don't own personality type talk about, oh, that person is an extrovert.

What they mean is they're a people person. That's usually what they mean. Or a loud person. Grigarius. They're either allowed in public. Yeah. The life of the party or they're a people person. And I don't believe that anymore. Yeah. That that means that. Yeah. So that's where I've updated my thinking. So, I think that's why people have mistyped themselves previously.

I don't think you've thought that for a long time either. means that. Yeah. So that's where I've updated my thinking. So, I think that's why people

have mistyped themselves previously. I don't think you've thought that for a long time either,

but I do believe that there's probably, for both of us, been some sort of like latent belief

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