Status Updates From Introvert Power: Why Your I...

They (introverts) just find the classroom too noisy and are annoyed by the kids who are hyperactive or disruptive. These clients predictably propose a very simple solution: “If only I could study by myself, I’d be fine.” One of the teens I worked with
told me about how she loves to take tests, because it is quiet and everyone is occupying their own space.

For him, self-communings are a pleasure. His own world is a safe harbor, a carefully tended and walled-in garden, closed to the public and hidden from prying eyes. His own company is the best. He feels at home in his world, where the only changes are made by himself. His best work is done with his own resources, on his own initiative, and in his own way.

The conversation is “mind to mind” rather than “mouth to mouth.”

Introverts generally prefer a rich inner life to an expansive
social life; we would rather talk intimately with a close friend
than share stories with a group; and we prefer to develop our
ideas internally rather than interactively.