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degree). Some psychologists map the
two tendencies on vertical and horizontal
axes, with the introvert-extrovert
spectrum on the horizontal axis, and
the anxious-stable spectrum on the vertical.
With this model, you end up with
four quadrants of personality types:
calm extroverts, anxious (or impulsive)
extroverts, calm introverts, and anxious
introverts. In other words, you can be a
shy extrovert, like Barbra Streisand,
who has a larger-than-life personality
and paralyzing stage fright; or a nonshy
introvert, like Bill Gates, who by all
accounts keeps to himself but is unfazed
by the opinions of others.
You can also, of course, be both shy
and an introvert: T. S. Eliot was a famously
private soul who wrote in “The
Waste Land” that he could “show you
fear in a handful of dust.” Many shy
people turn inward, partly as a refuge
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