We are the Introverts

Escape: the perks of being unavailable

Don’t mistake silence for apathy. When people are quiet, they’re often busy thinking and learning. Extraverts like to process ideas by talking them through. Introverts prefer to reflect before they speak. I'm not disengaged. I'm listening to your views and formulating mine.

An old Peanuts cartoon showed Charlie Brown observing two girls talking at a distance from him. After a while, he approaches and says accusingly, “You girls were talking about me, weren’t you!” The girls reply, “No, we weren’t.” Charlie Brown returns to his distant post, and the girls go on talking. After a while, Charlie Brown returns to them and

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