introversion

[piranha]

supergee writes about introversion and paying attention.

i am copying my comment to have it here for further ponderings.

i think the introvert/extravert distinction is really important, yes. but i wonder whether the paying attention stuff is not actually on a different axis from introversion. i am a strong introvert, but i don't have trouble with paying attention. in fact much of the joy in my life comes from paying attention. i don't mind travel at all, except for the people, *heh*. i prefer to drive myself so i am not piled into a container with too many other people in too close a proximity. i like the great outdoors, i love discovering and learning more things about life. i find watching people fascinating, it's just interacting with them that wears me out.

bodily maintenance annoys me not because of the paying attention part, but because it is maintenance, and i find that boring, and basically want to take the sysadmin approach: automate it as much as possible, and only pay attention to new and different stuff.

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[firecat]

PS, thanks for that thing about body maintenance. When I get bored with body maintenance I tend to believe I'm engaging in body hatred, and it's nice to be reminded that's not necessarily true.