{"id":19630,"date":"2016-07-13T23:34:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/introvert-or-extrovert-what-your-garden-says-about-you\/"},"modified":"2016-07-13T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:38:00","slug":"introvert-or-extrovert-what-your-garden-says-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/introvert-or-extrovert-what-your-garden-says-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Introvert or extrovert: what your garden says about you"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nYou can tell whether someone is an introvert or an extrovert just by looking at their garden, argues designer Charlie HartI was brought up to do extrovert well. We were trained to be able to talk with ease to those we didn\u2019t know, debate in public and if necessary be the life and soul of a social gathering. Moreover, all these qualities fed into a general conception that was handed down of what it was to be a man. Because I can do all these things relatively well, I grew up assuming I was therefore an extrovert – until a few weeks ago a friend explained to me that extroverts are people who gain energy from all these social exchanges, while introverts have to invest energy in them.This immediately struck me. Yes, I can hold my own at a dinner or drinks party, but I often find extended socialising genuinely exhausting. And once I get back from a social gathering I often need time on my own to reboot, while my wife, for example, does not. Perhaps therefore, I concluded, I was an introvert posing as an extrovert? This was quite a challenge to me personally because my alpha male upbringing had equated an introvert disposition with being \u201cwet\u201d. I now rather suspect this is an error of logic that as a culture we all too often make. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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