A Short Note for Introverts and Extroverts

In college, we will find a huge diversity of characters. It can be categorized by many factors. I found out that one of them comes from a different inner factor about how someone receives "social energy," which drives them to be energetic and productive. On the other hand, there is a tendency to build huge social relationships and networks during study, which I can interpret as involving connecting with numerous people.

There is a stereotype of introverts as anti-social types and extroverts as social butterflies. I found that the definitions are commonly used as justifications for how introverts avoid people and extroverts use other people's time to satisfy their social needs. Well, if I take the previous doctrine as an assumption that applies in college life, introverted people will be at a disadvantage.

However, what I found through my colleagues is a "not so true" reality. Introvert people (as they self-claimed and through the MBTI personality test) didn't show a linear record with my assumption. They blended in social occasions as many as extrovert people; even a few of them interact with more people than extrovert people. 

The differences might be that they were more likely to have "charging time," a period when they had free time and chose to spend it with themselves, while extroverts were more likely to bring other people to spend free time together.

For that, maybe inner social style is not an important issue to discuss. We are categorizing people so much that we forgot to define what is normal and best behavior. The fact that we have to build relationships and network in an introverted or extrovert way cannot be seen as a mistaken reality for me. 

Extroverts can have all the time they have but forget to deepen the relationship. I believe that getting deeper into those relationships, which are sometimes forgotten by introverts, is as important as expanding. 

Introverts can have deep relationships with a small number of people but forget to expand, which might be a "miss-placed investment." So, choosing the right strategy according to the type (such as time management) that suits us the most is the first step to build our network. Normal behavior might be that no matter what type of social style we have, expanding relationships and getting deep enough are what students need during their studies.