What Introverts and Extroverts Can Learn From Each Other

The Atlantic article refers to what The Human Design System describes as profile. Profile describes the road you travel of life. There are basically 12 roads. Seven are Introspective, one is a Juxtaposition, and four are Transpersonal. The Transpersonal actively seek out others to fulfill their relationship to others. The Introspective are in their own trip and get brought into the transpersonal aspects of their interactions. The Juxtaposition is on the fence, very different from the other two. They are very independent on what is described as a “Fixed Fate.”

Reducing personalities into two camps speaks to the nature of our dualistic nature. Human Design breaks down our understanding into a true individuality. Being a witness to your own road allows anyone to see what people see when they see you.

“Psychologists see extroversion as one of the Big Five personality traits, along with agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. The Big Five theory has been a staple of psychology since the 1980s, but the introvert-extrovert binary was first popularized in 1921 by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who posited that the two groups have different primary life goals. The former, he thought, seek to establish autonomy and independence; the latter seek union with others. Those stereotypes have persisted to this day.” - Arthur C. Brooks