Alex Lathbridge

Your score on extroversion is low, indicating you are introverted, reserved, and quiet.

Your socialization tends to be restricted to a few close friends.

So I score like mid-table on friendliness and gregariousness, but quite high in activity level and quite low on cheerfulness, which tracks.

Yeah, this is actually entirely what I was expecting.

I know I'm an introvert, but I actually do like being around people.

It's just that I get tired of it, and I like to go back home and hang around with my dog.

So it turns out that Daniel, Thomas and I have something in common.

We're all in jobs that require us to get out there and talk to people all of the time.

But we're all deep down a little bit more introverted.

But what's actually going on in the brains of introverts like us that makes us so different from the extroverts?

Back to Dr. Thomas Tago.

Dopamine is one of our brain's reward chemicals, it basically makes us feel rather good, but extroverts and introverts process it a little differently.

For people who are more extroverted, their brains respond more strongly to external rewards, socialising, noise, new experiences, so they might seek out busy environments to get that hit.

People who are more introverted are more sensitive to stimulation.

So that same busy environment that energizes someone who's more extroverted can flood an introvert system causing it to be overwhelmed and you reach your limit faster.

On the flip side, another neurotransmitter called acetylcholine is triggered by that quiet focus, learning and deep thinking.

It's not a big high, just calm and content.

This is what introverts naturally go towards.

And while these differences are hardwired into us,

They're not set in stone.