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The simplest modern way to explain the difference is energy. Introverts tend to spend energy when they&#8217;re around people and recover it when they&#8217;re alone. Extroverts tend to do the reverse: time with people recharges them, and too much time alone leaves them flat or restless. It isn&#8217;t about liking or disliking people. Plenty of introverts are warm, funny and good at parties; they just need quiet afterward. Plenty of extroverts are thoughtful and enjoy their own company; they simply recover faster with others. Personality researchers today measure extraversion as one of the Big Five traits, alongside openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism, and they treat it as a sliding scale rather than two boxes. That&#8217;s why the most useful question isn&#8217;t which box you belong in, but where on the scale you sit and what that means for how you rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Can you be both an introvert and an extrovert?<\/strong><br>Yes, and it&#8217;s more common than either extreme. People who fall near the middle of the scale are often called ambiverts. They enjoy company and solitude in roughly equal measure, and they shift depending on the day, the people and how tired they are. Because extraversion is measured on a continuum, most people land somewhere in the middle rather than at either end, even if they strongly identify with one label. There&#8217;s some evidence that the middle has advantages. A 2013 study by organizational psychologist Adam Grant, published in Psychological Science, found that salespeople who scored in the middle of the extraversion scale brought in more revenue than those at either end, likely because they could both talk and listen. 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