You have likely seen this meme before. And you likely agree with it, at least in some fashion. Yes, you think, I want to talk to people about things that “matter”, small talk is for small minds, “what’s up” is nothing you care about. What if I were to tell you that all of your talking about “atoms, death, aliens, faraway galaxies” was in fact, small talk, and small talk for the express purpose of not having the important, deep conversations about “what’s up”? When I care about someone, I do, in fact, want to know, what’s up. I want to know how their job is going. I want to…

Often it seems as if my social media feeds are overtaken by memes about introverts. As a somewhat rare extrovert among my friend group, I feel the need to share some information about extroverts. Let us start with the plain and simple fact that all extroverts are not the same. Most of my friends are familiar with the Myers Briggs personality types. Most of the free MBTI tests just give you your personality results. For example, I am an ENFP – extrovert, intuitive, feeling, and perceiving. What those free tests do not show you, but the more complete tests do, is that you are on a scale, a continuum, so…