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degree). Some psychologists map thetwo tendencies on vertical and horizontalaxes, with the <strong>in</strong>trovert-extrovertspectrum on the horizontal axis, andthe anxious-stable spectrum on the vertical.With this model, you end up withfour quadrants <strong>of</strong> personality types:calm extroverts, anxious (or impulsive)extroverts, calm <strong>in</strong>troverts, and anxious<strong>in</strong>troverts. In other words, you can be ashy extrovert, like Barbra Streisand,who has a larger-than-life personalityand paralyz<strong>in</strong>g stage fright; or a nonshy<strong>in</strong>trovert, like Bill Gates, who by allaccounts keeps to himself but is unfazedby the op<strong>in</strong>ions <strong>of</strong> others.You can also, <strong>of</strong> course, be both shyand an <strong>in</strong>trovert: T. S. Eliot was a famouslyprivate soul who wrote <strong>in</strong> “<strong>The</strong>Waste Land” that he could “show youfear <strong>in</strong> a handful <strong>of</strong> dust.” Many shypeople turn <strong>in</strong>ward, partly as a refuge54/929

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