The Introvert Personality
A Definition of Introvert
Introversion is the tendency to focus one's attention towards the inner, mental world rather than external, physical "reality".
Introversion is a natural characteristic occurring in about 25% of the population according to psychotherapist Dr Marti Olsen Laney in her excellent book The Introvert Advantage. Dr Laney offers a further definition of the introvert personality, ie that introverts are those who draw energy from the inner world of ideas and emotions as opposed to extroverts who thrive on external experience and interaction.
Introversion is not something we have or not, rather we all occupy a specific point on an introvert extrovert continuum.