A pair of Introverted/Extraverted type traits is defined by filling the Ordered/ Cluttered function blocks with introverted (Si, Ni, Fi, Ti) and extraverted (Se, Ne, Fe, Te) information aspects. Thus, introverted types have ordered introverted and cluttered extraverted aspects, while extraverted types have ordered extraverted and cluttereed introverted aspects.
As mentioned in the previous article, Ordered/Cluttered properties determine the priority in assimilating information. Combined with introverted and extraverted aspects, these properties give two different types of thinking. Introverted ones are responsible for the sources of information themselves, while extraveted ones are responsible for the process of their interaction. Thus, introverts are types that rely on knowledge of how the world is in itself, while extraverts are types that rely on knowledge of interaction in the world. For the former, the point of reference is the state of rest, a “static” condition, and for the latter, the state of motion, “dynamics”.
In simple terms, introverts strive to form a clear understanding of the qualities of material objects and the flow of events in the world; they seek to have consistent moral and ethical ideas about things and an understanding of how they work. In contrast, extraverts rely on understanding abilities and ideas and where they can be applied; they accumulate knowledge about skills and etiquette, develop universal technologies and rules of conduct.
It is important to understand that socionic introversion/extraversion has nothing to do with the similar terms of either Jung or Eysenck. That is, introverts are not people whose attention is directed inward, and they are not those who are closed and passively manifest themselves in the external world.
Introverted types include Robespierre, Dumas, Maxim Gorky, Yesenin, Dreiser, Balzac, Dostoevsky and Gabin.
Extraverted types include Hugo, Don Quixote, Hamlet, Zhukov, Jack London, Napoleon, Stierlitz and Huxley.