11 Things All Introverts Should Know

6. Thinking introversion applies to people who are very self-reflective.

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These people are generally introspective and thoughtful, and spend a lot of time inside their own heads, focusing their energy inwards. They have a “rich inner life”, as Cheek puts it. It’s basically Jung’s original definition of introversion.

These are the people who might not even score as introverts on a Big 5 personality test, because they don’t necessarily have the same aversion to social events that other introverts do (though some do).