I've always been an outspoken extrovert, even with my stutter.
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And both have enjoyed bursts of rapid, extrovert economic growth.
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"I'm a natural extrovert, and so this is a pleasure,"
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Devonte, the extrovert Devonte, 15, remains missing after the crash.
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Unfortunately, one semi-successful meditation session does not make an extrovert.
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I then tackle the biggest part of Lin's extrovert worksheet: practice.
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Or you can have Tyson Fury who is an absolute extrovert.
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Two, because she's not an extrovert, she's not a back-slapper.
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That probably means I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.
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I am an extreme extrovert and I thrive in social situations.
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As much as I'm an extrovert, I still need my downtime.
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Bean Boy, 7, the younger brother, is an extrovert, always cracking jokes.
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Are you an introvert or an extrovert, a feeler or a thinker?
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So I decided then and there to become an extrovert at work.
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"The truth is I'm an introvert, and he's an extrovert," Kathy said.
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Neymar is an incorrigible extrovert, a fashion icon and a marketing phenomenon.
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My dad is pretty introverted, and my mom is a total extrovert.
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Anne is a spunky extrovert, whereas Emily is more withdrawn, more serious.
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Dr. Luo, a calm introvert, perfectly complemented Mr. Arison, an energetic extrovert.
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I've changed from being very introverted to being an extrovert, and an activist.
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I'm not really an extrovert so this takes a lot coming from me.
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It's then that I realize I don't really want to be an extrovert.
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In Shafi, investors found a consummate extrovert who can empathize with event-goers.
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" At 25, she said, "I was an extrovert and pushing myself on people.
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"She's not a natural extrovert," said Ariela Goggi, Vogue Italia's former vice director.
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The popular extrovert would appreciate a position working with different people every day.
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" One tabloid consulted a clinical psychologist, who referred to McEnroe as a "hysterical extrovert.
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I suppose I'm what they call an introverted extrovert — to use a miserable expression!
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Though I consider myself an extrovert, sometimes these Fridays spent alone are the best.
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But I also think that self-esteem is not the domain of an extrovert.
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I'm sure you've been asked many times whether you're an introvert or an extrovert.
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Every Myers Briggs' personality test I've ever taken has dubbed me an unequivocal extrovert.
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Conversely, an introvert was happier to spend money at a bookshop than an extrovert.
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"I was an extrovert raised by introverts, and that was sometimes hard," she said.
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I've realized the value in me being an extrovert, or an exhibitionist, on stage.
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Our office lunch culture is great and very nice for an extrovert like myself.
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I was never an extrovert, so I always had to have someone meet me halfway.
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Now that the show is so popular, liking it might mean that you're an extrovert.
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"She is the only extrovert in an introvert family and she's very withdrawn," Bozeman said.
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In just 50 milliseconds, most people can accurately predict if you consider yourself an extrovert.
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If you're an extrovert you will feel charged up and ready for the after party.
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He had never been an extrovert, but after the assaults he grew withdrawn and depressed.
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"There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert," he wrote.
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Whether you are an introvert or an extrovert, meeting people is always a bit nerve-wracking.
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Be respectful of your limitations and don't expect that you will be like some wild extrovert.
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Being an extrovert, it seems, is much more intense than just going to a few parties.
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My officemate calls me a "flaming extrovert," so lunch gives me something of a social outlet.
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Like any other true disease, it affects rich and poor, famous and obscure, extrovert and introvert.
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The two men were studies in contrast: Mr. Trout the extrovert, Mr. Ries the quieter one.
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"She's very West Coast, she's very extrovert," the group's singer, Black Francis, explained to Magnet magazine.
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A true extrovert, I also manage to fall a little bit in love everywhere I go.
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They'll also be an extrovert, a good fit for my introvert self (which she correctly called).
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An extrovert on a global tour, she faces little risk that her language skills will erode.
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"What Foxx gets just right is the physical Ray Charles, and what an extrovert he was."
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As an extrovert who loved to be around friends, I had never been big on solo travel.
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As an extrovert who thrives on being around people, I jumped right into the thick of camp.
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To see your identity in any single trait -- introvert, extrovert, or neurotic -- is to limit your life.
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It's hard to choose because the introvert/extrovert dichotomy reflects a tired and outdated view of personality.
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She was not an extrovert ... she'd say hi to folks inside, but it was all about lifting.
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In case you missed it: Iconic fitness guru and former extrovert, Richard Simmons is alive and well.
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The aim of enlightened management is not to tilt an extrovert-oriented company rapidly towards the introverts.
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Every day I re-learn that happiness doesn't come from the extrovert world, it comes from inside.
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But introverts working on extrovert-heavy teams have to rely on the extroverts to implement such changes.
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Page was an extrovert even in high schoolPage told Business Insider he has always been a showman.
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The Carnegie director, Melody Sky Eisler, is one of the new-style extrovert librarians: gregarious and welcoming.
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If you are an extrovert, think of yourself as a customer magnet that people appreciate being around.
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Enjoying the benefits of time alone isn't a question of being an introvert or extrovert, Dr. Nguyen said.
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Athanasiou stressed that the "prime thing" was for Greece to become "more extrovert" in its relationship with investors.
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Lewis was an extrovert in his own fashion, modeling himself after Michael Jackson in certain manner and dress.
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Page has always been considered the visionary mind behind Google, but Brin is the extrovert of the duo.
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While Fiona's Scorpio rising brings very serious vibes into her chart, "She is definitely an extrovert," wrote Gorsuch.
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Whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, there's no shortage of benefits to the experience of traveling solo.
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Ask a chain of questions, and you're an extrovert for a night without having to talk about yourself.
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Basically, it's almost impossible to find someone who acts 100% like an introvert or extrovert all the time.
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He's not your classic stoner friend—he's very lively and extrovert and just happens to really love cannabis.
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For introvert-extrovert couples, it's O.K. to split up (temporarily) to focus on things you both enjoy doing.
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Chayote, rarely an extrovert, got the extra spark it needed from an orange scribble of paprika-piquillo sauce.
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The red-haired Spithill is an extrovert who embraces news-conference banter and likes to train by boxing.
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Although the Extrovert tote is made of plastic, I was surprised to find how sturdy the bag felt.
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Raveesh was an affable extrovert, always buying rounds; the unofficial mayor of that part of town, Lunsford called him.
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Extrovert Nigerians excel at this crime, says Ellis (a victim himself), because they are "top class" at creating trust.
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Ms. Johnson said that her son had transformed from an extrovert into a "hermit" after serving in the military.
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And so not to have confidence, to be shy, and at the same time be an extrovert, is cruel.
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Hi, Carolyn: Is it your sense that people have started to use the term "extrovert" in a derogatory sense?
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He's talking to folks all the time," says Kessler, who like so many people characterizes Schumer as an "extreme extrovert.
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She is a slob, he is a neat freak; she is an extrovert, he holds everything — including his pain — inside.
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He sets his students the task of "networking like an introvert" or "networking like an extrovert" to broaden their perspectives.
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Many Finns are wary of the extrovert and social media-savvy politician, mistrusting his image as a right-wing ideologue.
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As a natural introvert who is generally happier behaving like an extrovert, I needed someone to force me to socialize.
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Surprisingly, all participants' well-being scores were higher during the extrovert week and took a dip during the introvert one.
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The article continues: Enjoying the benefits of time alone isn't a question of being an introvert or extrovert, Dr. Nguyen said.
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And if you're an extrovert you should read this book to understand how not everyone can spend hours socializing every day.
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I'm an extrovert and a Leo, so I love talking, sharing ideas, and yes, sometimes even being the center of attention.
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To determine whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, you must ask yourself one question: Where do you get your energy?
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If you are an extrovert who is managing, working with, or raising introvert kids, ask them to use the magic words.
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Whereas Obama often was guarded and serious, Booker is an extrovert whose unbridled enthusiasm and brimming energy can seem almost comical.
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If you'd choose the former, perhaps you should take a look at our guide to surviving social distancing as an extrovert.
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I consider myself an introverted extrovert, so I enjoy having a mix of social and non-social nights throughout the week.
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While I can perform like an extrovert when I need to, I really need that introvert-alone-recharge-time to function.
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He exerted quiet influence from behind the scenes, giving room for extrovert McDermott to play the role of showman and salesman.
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I've never been big on the see-through trend, so I wasn't sure how I would feel about the Extrovert tote.
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I'm an introvert, so I find them exhausting, and am (presumably) less likely than an extrovert to meet interesting or contributory people.
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Over the past 18 years, I've worked in various "extrovert" sectors, such as sales and communication, and I've managed to consistently excel.
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How can I still be connected, I can still have great relationships, without pressuring myself to function or socialize like an extrovert?
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Dispatch A good friend and colleague, a real extrovert, sent me a link to a shirt recently that she knew I'd appreciate.
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If that sounds familiar, then we have some tips to make any vacation a success — even when you're traveling with an extrovert.
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And we live in a world where it's obvious that an introvert is just as capable of professional success as an extrovert.
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He is a natural extrovert, expressive and energetic, as friendly as a Labrador retriever with a bit of bulldog stubbornness mixed in.
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Cain says that as an introvert living in an extrovert-friendly world, it can start to take an emotional toll on you.
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And we live in a world where it's obvious that an introvert is just as capable of professional success as an extrovert.
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Or they might observe that the loops of your cursive Ls are extra wide, which they could take to mean you're an extrovert.
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Freddie was very extrovert onstage, as we all know, but he was very shy in his private life and liked to be private.
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" What's more, Boucai find the hustles energizing: "I'm an extrovert, so just being paid to be around people is always good for me.
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"Extrovert" is an understatement, and it's impossible to imagine spending five minutes with her without becoming friends, or at least, finding some common ground.
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For example, they can tell if you're an introvert or extrovert, which can be used to more effectively get you to click on ads.
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Do you find it hard doing the more extrovert things that come with being an artist—like this interview for example, or meeting fans?
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Claude Mongeau, the former CEO of Canadian National Railway, for example, set himself the goal of acting like an extrovert five times a day.
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Bear in mind that there is research showing that even introverts enjoy behaving like an extrovert, far more than they think they will beforehand.
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To me, if it was sort of brand-making in that way, it was a symptom of being an extrovert in an introvert's job.
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Katia can be more dominant and is more of an extrovert, whereas I can be quieter, but in a laid-back/composed sort of way.
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So whereas an extrovert will get their kicks out of talking to strangers in a bar, I get mine from what psychologists call "solitary pursuits".
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"There's a lack of willingness to accept different minds and cognitive styles and our entire society is kind of built for extrovert people," Sommers says.
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"I'd be happy to participate and give you some pointers," Lin wrote back, but warned that becoming an extrovert could take months, or even years.
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But after almost a full week of pretending to be an extrovert, all I really wanted to do was go home and sit in bed.
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Since moving here with her son, Barron, 11, this summer, she has demonstrated none of the extrovert bravado that so defines the man she married.
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"Although my father wasn't much of an extrovert, he always had fascinating tales and stories from his many travels," Marie-Christine, his oldest daughter, said.
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I curl up on the couch for another online lecture, punctuated by random YouTube clips from my extrovert husband who's been cooped up all day.
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Then, as now, he could swerve quickly from mawkish to mischievous — by turns a goofy extrovert and a lone wolf, withdrawing in moments of introspection.
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This is also where I meet a self-identified extrovert who tells me he was out last night and didn't go to bed until 6 a.m.
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His sister, an extrovert with a zest for travel, worked in the human resources department of the Canadian Hearing Society, which provides services for deaf people.
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"He's a classic extrovert," Mr. Ruddy said, adding that the people Mr. Trump sees at Mar-a-Lago are the ones he feels most connected to.
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Our relationship differences are more about our personality differences — whether it's hobbies and interests, introvert versus extrovert, cynical (I prefer 'realistic' or 'practical') versus upbeat, etc.
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People are multidimensional, and while some people identify strongly with an extrovert or introvert archetype, we may have several other characteristics that make up our unique personalities.
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When I said that extroverts torture introverts using social media, I should clarify that I find it unlikely that the extrovert views the exchange in those terms.
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For example, if you're an introvert, you don't have to fake being an extrovert; connoting energy happens in ways more than just showing outward displays of it.
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One advantage of online learning is "it doesn't advantage the extrovert," said Daniel Redwood, director of human nutrition and functional medicine at the University of Western States.
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A new study out of the University of California Riverside suggests that acting like an extrovert can make you feel substantially happier, even if you're an introvert.
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Once introverts foster a connection with someone, they can get just as much out of a networking event as the extrovert that claims 30 or more business cards.
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"I'm an extrovert," said Geraldine Visco, wearing a bell-bottom body suit, gold chains, a pink cowboy hat, neon blue lipstick and little stars painted on her face.
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I looked forward to our weekly sessions because Julie was, refreshingly, so unlike me: an easygoing extrovert to my more cautious introvert, a realist but not an overthinker.
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The general extrovert trend of the show has been turned on its head with the identity pirating that Cambridge Analytica performed in the interests of reactionary political isolationism.
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"Freddie was very extrovert onstage, as we all know, but he was very shy in his private life and liked to be private," Brian May told PEOPLE in 21991.
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But after a full week of acting like an extrovert — and nearly a month of preparing myself — I'm happy to say that I no longer wish to be one.
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Despite being a self-described extrovert, Philipps still suffers from social anxiety and credits her husband writer-director Marc Silverstein's support and her intense workouts for helping ease it.
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That said, being an extrovert doesn't mean you can't suffer from social burnout—it merely means you can handle a lot more social activity before you reach your limit.
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But Bencic, a Swiss extrovert who turned 22016 on Sunday and is returning to the fore after injury, has long been considered one of the game's most sparkling talents.
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I don't think of her as an extrovert, but when we were done, she met every single person on set, my entire staff, the whole floor, including the cleaning crew.
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It wasn't uncomfortable, but it wasn't the kind of atmosphere one might expect around someone like Ms. Union, who, at least on social media, appears to be a natural extrovert.
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On the other hand, regardless of whether or not you're an extrovert, if you are typically concerned about the comfort of your audience, you might be more likely to hold back.
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Ben could be described as a handsome dork with a romantic streak and Alice as a cool extrovert with a not-so-secret tender side, but those descriptions seem too reductive.
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If an introvert's organization tends to lean toward extroversion, than even well-meaning extrovert managers may unconsciously reward the talk-it-out-ers while inadvertently sidelining the think-before-you-speak-ers.
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But those kinds of records were useless for figuring out whether a particular voter was, say, a neurotic introvert, a religious extrovert, a fair-minded liberal or a fan of the occult.
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"Dawnn is looking at who our customer is: where on the scale of introvert to extrovert; are they jet-setters or homebodies; flamboyant or conservative?" said Dino Minichiello, 49, the brand's founder.
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"That's not his fallback position — to be this extrovert, light-up-any-room kind of guy," said Jaime Castillo, who worked for Mr. Castro both in the mayor's office and in Washington.
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Best friends Abbi (Abbi Jacobson), an artsy klutz with the "ass of an ageless angel," and Ilana (Ilana Glazer), a sex-positive extrovert with a trail of job dismissals, fail at many things.
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And it's a Netflix teen trifecta with Alexa & Katie, in which one best friend, the extrovert Alexa (Paris Berelc) is undergoing cancer treatments, and the other, the quirky Katie (Isabel May) is not.
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While this is obviously true of anyone, at least if you're an extrovert and you go to a shit club night, you'll probably enjoy talking to all the boneheads in the smoking area.
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For most of the two and a half decades that Allred spent in Philadelphia, she was an energetic extrovert with no idea, she says, that women occupied a secondary place in the world.
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While she says she was a "tom boy" in high school — she played tennis, soccer, softball and basketball — she was an extrovert who served as class president and even helped plan Senior Prom.
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Ms. Hughes's Racine is an insolent, lip-smacking extrovert, to whom violence comes almost naturally; Ms. Fuller's slowly blooming Anaia mostly keeps her eyes lowered and her voice at a self-erasing mumble.
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Her name is Frances Welty and Moriarty initially planned to just tell the story through Frances — a twice-married extrovert and writer of bodice-ripping romances whose mischievous sense of humor resembles Moriarty's.
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" An extrovert in glitter eye-shadow, she also wants the festival to be fun: The New York opening will include a parading flash-mob performance, set to Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
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The driving force is extrovert, quirky CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, appointed in 2004, a year after the company flirted with bankruptcy, and the first chief executive from outside the Kristiansen clan, Denmark's richest family.
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Regardless of if you're an extrovert or occasionally moonlight as one, proclaiming your intent to "grab some fresh air" is met with raised eyebrows and bobbing chins—few, if any, intended to convey approval.
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As an extrovert who craves being close to people, I'm not a fan of social distancing — but I'm practicing it because currently it's the most effective tool we have to fight the virulent coronavirus.
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An extreme extrovert, he was brilliant before a crowd and also at ease in private conversations, connecting with everyone from country-club suburbanites to the destitute souls he often fed in his own house.
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But our differences (extrovert versus introvert, and his concrete, linear style of thinking and communicating versus my tendency toward abstraction and patterns) revealed themselves over time to be a source of stagnation, not growth.
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" The extrovert does want to find the right person and settle down but she candidly tells Motherboard, "Between work, my pre-existing social life and dating I don't have a lot of downtime for myself.
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To be sure, Alexis Arquette could be the colorful extrovert who glammed it up for a night on the town, or stole scenes as a Boy George impersonator in Adam Sandler's Wedding Singer and Blended.
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Spalding, who is older by eight years, is an extrovert and a risk-taker, qualities that, combined with her placid cheeriness and thoroughgoing sincerity, make her seem something like a good witch: formidable yet benevolent.
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"Losing a romantic relationship can be a bigger void for you than for an extrovert who has many friends and can easily spend time with other people," says Anita Chlipala, LMFT, a dating expert in Chicago.
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Though Karan and Kawakubo's personalities might seem like oil and water — Karan is somewhat of an extrovert and Kawakubo's been very reclusive — the ready-to-wear designer admires the artistry and meditation that Kawakubo's work requires.
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Still, Mr. Blanco, who is decidedly private about his personal life for such an extrovert, insisted that releasing his own music was less a bid for midcareer stardom than an experiment to keep from getting bored.
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So he is in a nearly unique position to shame the viewer with a frank perspective on how Mr. Trump used his extrovert side to make citizens complacent about the less savory aspects of his character.
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As an extrovert who loves playing games with friends, I've been on FaceTime every night with friends, but it's not the same as the semi-regular board game cafe excursions we enjoy (we miss you Hex & Company!).
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While these online gatherings have been a blessing for socializing and supporting each other through this crisis (though not reason enough to put on a bra), I, an extrovert, felt compelled to kick it up a notch.
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Sometimes, Holey Moley feels adapted from the life of an extrovert who's been forced to work from home, causing them to start babbling about anything they can possibly think of when they meet up with friends or family.
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Being in an industry driven by people, you need to be able to dig deeper and put your finger on specific things that make a founder stand out (other than their ability to pitch or be an extrovert).
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There's so many other diversities, there's faith, there's cultures, there's age, there's disabilities, there's sexual orientation, there's if you're introvert, extrovert, if you're a business person, if you're an engineer, if you're someone coming from an unprivileged geography.
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But when he is 21, almost as soon as he devotes himself to piano study, two names appear in his diary: Florestan and Eusebius, extrovert and introvert, mascots of Schumann's internal divisions, the "masks" of the book's subtitle.
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Victoria Beckham started her career as a Spice Girl after answering an ad for young women who were "street smart, extrovert, ambitious and able to sing and dance," that was placed in British industry magazine "The Stage" in 20163.
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As Klein phrases it: Part recluse, part extrovert; part Italian Jew, part French cosmopolitan; part sculptor, part painter; part bohemian, part aristocrat; part middle-class respectability, part tainted by family bankruptcy: Modigliani's identity was more complex than is popularly thought.
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Even though feeling like an outsider might seem isolating, the fact that you don't take up all the social space (as some of our extrovert friends can do) lets others reveal who they are as you take it all in.
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As had been clear many times before — but was forgotten in the early part of the 2000s — the reluctant girl in the corner or the punk rebel was just as capable of making world-shaping pop as the popular extrovert.
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While others saw this as playing to type, living up to a form of caricature that deprecated his West Indian upbringing and roots, Bruno would later be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which shines a rather different light on his extrovert public persona.
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" Both as a member of the ensemble and as a soloist, Mr. Baker captivated audiences and earned the respect of his fellow percussionists with playing that was, as Neil Peart, the drummer with the band Rush, once said, "extrovert, primal and inventive.
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Until they moved, De Cotiis and Claudia Rose, a sultry extrovert who acts as her husband's muse and business partner, had lived for more than a decade in an '80s-era luxury building in Brera, a social and fashion center of town.
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The most popular of the group is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, roughly based on Dr. Carl Jung's psychology, which since the 1960s has sorted some 463 million subjects into introvert or extrovert, sensing or intuiting, thinking or feeling and judging or perceiving.
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Milner thinks that the same thing that protects you from microscopic invaders and makes you sneeze from pollen—your immune system—might just help shape you into a happy, bold extrovert or a shy, anxious outcast, depending on certain genetic variants and your surrounding environment.
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Unlike some of the other matches who floundered in the real world (justice for Mark Cuevas), these two grew closer as each day passed despite being total opposites; Speed is a perky, happy-go-lucky extrovert, and Hamilton is more the strong, silent introvert type.
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Our responses determine where we fall on the spectrum of four categories: how we interact with the world (extrovert or introvert), how we process information (sensing or intuition), how we make decisions (thinking or feeling) and how we organize our lives (judging or perceiving).
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Lee essentially wore two hats at Marvel, serving as the main writer and editor at the company -- where the 1960s explosion of creativity, especially with Kirby, has been compared to the Beatles -- and as the extrovert who worked to sell the world on the genre's viability.
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In "Quiet", Ms Cain concludes that business has long been dominated by an "extrovert ideal", thanks to a succession of corporate fashions—whether the 1950s model of the "organisation man", who thrived by asserting himself in meetings and inside teams, or today's fad for constant communication.
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Michael Fish, the extrovert pioneer of the so-called kipper tie and an inner-circle confidant of the biggest celebrities of the day (and the Mr. Fish in the exhibition's title), was the most outrageous and provocative of the lot, with an unabashed more-is-more aesthetic.
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Leaud, who stars as the French king in "La Mort de Louis XIV" (The Death of Louis XIV) which will be screened at Cannes, "made his first appearance on the Croisette (the festival's venue) in 1959 as an extrovert, unruly 14-year-old," the organizers said.
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If you end up at a giant networking event where you feel totally out of place and don't know a single soul, unless you're a hard extrovert, you're probably going to spend the evening stuck to wall like a shy kid at a seventh-grade dance.
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Zayas said whether you're an introvert or extrovert can usually be answered by one simple question: If you suddenly had two hours of free time, would you prefer to spend it with a large group of people, or be by yourself or just with a few close friends?
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I am not what you would call an extrovert, and part of the reason I've always felt comfortable with animals is that I don't have to worry about being cool enough for their art school friends or make small talk with them about whether or not Jon Snow is really dead.
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A friendly extrovert, at odds with his steely demeanour, I had a two-hour catch up with Dan to talk life, his accomplishments, the changing attitudes of each generation, the fight game, how professional wrestling has changed since his NWA/WWE heyday and more—the following are some of his musings.
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During my senior year of college, my social life looked like this: I'd get a text from someone inviting me out for the night—it didn't matter where: a party, a movie, a drink at a local bar—and I'd accept eagerly, being an obnoxious extrovert who welcomed any excuse not to study.
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The exchange was hailed by German Romantics as key evidence of a longstanding dialogue between German and Italian artists, but it also seems revealing of a certain kind of personality: that of an artist extrovert, someone who has an eye on his or her fellow practitioners, who nurtures their own creative instinct by surrounding themselves with the work of others.
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Solace might not be of that much use to me, an extrovert in a major city who's already in community with other trans people (and my questions at this point of my transition are more existential than they are practical—less about how do I do this or how do I do that, and more about what do I do now).
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A counsellor asks him about his childhood, and we're off: with terrific confidence and flair, Mr Fletcher stages a series of fantasy-tinged flashbacks which recount how a dumpy boy from suburban Middlesex named Reginald Dwight reinvented himself as a sequinned extrovert, how he became one of the world's top-selling musicians, how he feared that being gay would result in a life of loneliness and how he sank into what the tabloids would call a "drugs hell".
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