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Day 5 of 30 – Introversion

Sundays are rough.  For some reason they just drain the heck out of me.  I usually have to come home and take a nap.  Even with limit human interaction on account of Covid, I still get exhausted. 

You see, I am an introvert.

I have taken many an MBTI, in seminary they gave us an extremely in-depth version of the test which broke down each section into other sections and put each attribute on a scale you could see just how much or how little you fill that particular type.

I am really not sold on personality tests like MBTI.  I think that even if the test is carefully administrated, it is still reductive.

That said, I agree with its assessment of me, especially in regard to my introversion.  I am an INTP (I used to score more INFP).  This means I am an ‘Introverted, iNtuitive, Thinking, Perceiving’ person.

If we looked at these traits as being on a spectrum with Introverted on one side and Extrovert on the other, I consistently test all the way to the introverted side.  All the other traits are much less extreme.

This is all to say that I get tired easily when I am ‘on’.  It doesn’t matter how much I like the people I am with, or how long I have known them, too much human interaction is exhausting for me. 

But we live in an Extroverts world.  If we are sitting in a room together, we are expected to make polite conversation rather than sit in silence. 

I don’t know what got me thinking about this, except that I am growing more exhausted as I sit here.

I am currently having a muscle spasm in my back which is impeding my ability to move.  I took a muscle relaxer and it is definitely making me sleepy. I’m not really sure how its effecting my back muscles, but I need to lay down before I fall down!

Today I learned how to screen record on my phone, an I played some ridiculous video games to show it working.

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