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his preferred type, “<strong>in</strong>telligent people”(sensitive, imag<strong>in</strong>ative, and melancholic).“Mark this well, ye proud men <strong>of</strong>action!” declared his countryman He<strong>in</strong>richHe<strong>in</strong>e. “Ye are, after all, noth<strong>in</strong>gbut unconscious <strong>in</strong>struments <strong>of</strong> the men<strong>of</strong> thought.”Because <strong>of</strong> this def<strong>in</strong>itional <strong>com</strong>plexity,I orig<strong>in</strong>ally planned to <strong>in</strong>vent myown terms for these constellations <strong>of</strong>traits. I decided aga<strong>in</strong>st this, aga<strong>in</strong> forcultural reasons: the words <strong>in</strong>trovert andextrovert have the advantage <strong>of</strong> be<strong>in</strong>gwell known and highly evocative. Everytime I uttered them at a d<strong>in</strong>ner party orto a seatmate on an airplane, they eliciteda torrent <strong>of</strong> confessions and reflections.For similar reasons, I’ve used thelayperson’s spell<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> extrovert ratherthan the extravert one f<strong>in</strong>ds throughoutthe research literature.769/929

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