Thread about other-directedness vs inner-directedness. Other terms for this distinction might be (Jungian) "extrovert" and "introvert". https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/969234464382640130 …
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Colloquially yes, but (Wiki): "Jung defined introversion as an "attitude-type characterised [by focus on] subjective psychic contents" (focus on one's inner psychic activity) and extraversion as "an attitude type [by focus] on the external object" (focus on the outside world)."
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in the sense Adam is discussing, the social status games are both a feature of the environment AND a feature of the internal world. My reading of his analysis is that oversocialized people allow the social status games to occupy an enormous proportion of their inner world.
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IMO the assumption that extroverts have an "inner world" in the same sense as a Jungian introvert does is a typical mind fallacy. Oversocialized people in the
@Aelkus sense rarely turn their social processing mechanism inward. It's not a difference in degree so much as in kind. -
p sure extroverts do not have an inner world
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I'm unsure to respond and don't know if that was intended as a laugh-take or not
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It's not. I interact with extroverts regularly. I even dated one for a while, and it was remarkable how unable she was to understand her own ideas and behaviors. Most of her world was this shared/consensus reality between her and her friends (who were in constant communication).
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