Why Extroverts Are Happier Than Introverts

A recent Washington Post article claimed “extroverts are on the whole happier than introverts.” I was outraged when I read that (and thrilled when I read the Thoreau quote near the end of the article. Well, DUH!).

There’s a reason extroverts are happier: our culture is made to revolve around them. The needs of introverts are ignored. If peace and quiet reigned, if everyone had their own office (instead of a cubicle), if everything wasn’t a damned group activity, introverts would be happier than extroverts. The capacity for happiness is not in the makeup of the personality; it’s in the makeup of society.

And who did this survey? Leave me alone already!