I have never really resonated with either of the categories of extrovert and introvert. Most often the terms are used to help people own those facets of their beings which energize or drain them in an effort to better understand themselves as they move toward a healthier vision of self-care.
Granted I am not psychologist or therapist, so don’t feel any need to agree with me, but the terms seem to be unnecessary and reductionist labels. Since human life is always a melody of aloneness and community, (chords and rests) the music our our lives needs both. And it seems that the particularity of relational context plays a significant role in how any given moment of aloneness of relationship may energize.
Labels are helpful… to a point; labels sometimes become violent. There is a real sense in which coming to understand that I need alone time to read my soul is glorious, but feed my soul for what? To be with people. If I discover that I am energized to be with people it is so I can better entire moments of stillness.
Peace, dwight