This post will include information from the following YouTube video, which contains some vocabulary not commonly heard inside the Grove City bubble. PewDiePie self-censored the curse words, but if you don’t want to watch a video that includes vocabulary like the word hell in a non-religious context, you do not have to watch the video to read this post. The video ends at 19:38, with an irrelevant advertisement beginning at that point.
To understand selling capabilities of introverts and extroverts, and the areas in selling for introverts and extroverts to improve on, we have to clearly understand what introverts and extroverts are. Misconceptions on how both groups talk and act are so strong and so prevalent that it can be hard to understand that without seeing it.
The video above is PewDiePie providing commentary on a video of seven people, six introverts and one extrovert, in which the six introverts must determine who the extrovert is and kick out one person at a time until they feel confident they got the extrovert. For several rounds people were eliminated, only once during which was the vote not overwhelmingly in agreement on who to eliminate, until three of the seven people remained. All three unanimously said they felt confident the extrovert was eliminated and they could end the game, at which point it was revealed that the extrovert, who was a strong extrovert, was still present and four strong introverts had been eliminated instead.
Common misconceptions were referenced during the video, like introverts being awkward and extroverts not, like introverts being quiet and extroverts not, when the introversion-extroversion axis being a measure of whether you get energy or not from social interaction, and to what degree that is. PewDiePie said he was both an introvert and extrovert, that he sometimes could be like an introvert and sometimes like an extrovert, without knowing what an Ambivert is.
Because of the misconceptions about introversion and about extroversion, a group of introverts could listen to fellow strong introverts describe themselves and think they are an extrovert again and again and again, with the one strong extrovert in the group being thought of as the least likely person out of anyone in the group to be the extrovert. This video is a helpful thing to keep in mind when thinking about introversion vs extroversion.
There’s definitely a lot of misconceptions about introverts and extraverts in this video, so it’s nice to remember that introverts and extraverts usually display different characteristics than what most people assume. I wonder if the group would have done better if they did not have those misconceptions about extraverts and introverts.
After watching PewDiePie’s videos over the years his extroversion and introversion do come through a lot. It’s no surprise to me that he’s an ambivert, and I think most people don’t realize how common it is to fall in the middle of the introvert/extrovert spectrum.