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Ryugen -> Extrovert Self-expression (1/24/2008 2:14:14 PM)
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OK, so, for me, I thought I'd say my piece, and how it is for me. I recently came across some thoughts I found quite interesting, and thought I'd share them with those on CM, cos the majority of you have some pretty spunky gray matter between your ears, and it's always interesting to read the opinions coming through your keyboards.
While a different issue lead to these thoughts, and I've already gotten out the worries that lead to it, I'm not going to go over that issue here for my own reasons. As for the thoughts, Do you ever remember hearing or reading a line similar to You're someone else around so-and-so, you bahave differently? Well, at a number of points in time I've dangled the idea of different personalities inhabitting one skull and such, without there being multiple personality syndrome, whether it was possible, whether it came out only around certain people, etc. Trying to find explainations for such a thing. Occasionally I'd just deny it and say people were lying to themselves if they behaved differently around certain other people and that they all had their own motivations for it.
However, that sort of issue about that sort of comment hasn't come to mind except recently in relation to what else came to mind first. I admit I've never been told that line, but I've heard it in movies and been told it about others by others. Heck, I've even been given the oppourtunity to say similar things to other people. But let me get back to the thoughts at hand.
I realised that I can't fully express myself without other people present. I know I'm an extrovert, and perhaps this only applys to extroverts, or perhaps it's just me. I know, however, that it goes further than that. People are influenced by other people quite a bit, and that may have something to do with the fact that around 75% of the worlds population are extroverts. I don't know if introverts are less influenced by others than extroverts, but I imagine it's the case.
Although there's more to it than just that. I came to the realisation that I am indeed slightly different and behave differently around different people. While there are certainly some common factors in my behaviour, I reckon that about 50% of my behaviour (at a sketchy estimate) is dictated by who I'm around. I guess I'm not so immune to that saying then.
Now there's still more to it. I also realised that I can't accurately describe myself in any way without recounting past events that had to do with other people. I can't pull up a single thing in my head that can't be explained or demonstrated without talking about others, even hypothetically. That made me wonder just how much of myself is really 'me', how much of my personality is mine.
So then if about 50% of my behaviour and personality changes with who I'm around, does that mean I have less personality than say, a less easily influenced extrovert? I know personality and behaviour aren't the only defining factors of a person, and we are more than that, but I still wonder about how much of what defines 'me' is actually up to me. I know I could control who I interact with to a certain extent, and I'm sure I do, but the main reasons for that certainly aren't personality control of myself.
I must say, however, I certainly enjoy who I am around some people [:D]
Do any of you who identify yourselves as extroverts feel similarly to how I do? If so, why, if not, why?
How do those who identify themselves as introverts feel about their forms of self expression and how much of how they define themselves relies on other people and their reactions with other people? why?
I guess this is just a bunch of curiosities, feel free to express your opinions, ask questions of your own, and answer mine [:)]
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