From the course: Finding Your Introvert/Extrovert Balance in the Workplace

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Depth and breadth

Depth and breadth

From the course: Finding Your Introvert/Extrovert Balance in the Workplace

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Depth and breadth

- Depth or breadth is another way to understand introversion and extroversion. As an extrovert, I love having a broad network of people in my life. If you charted my network, you would see that I know many, many people. In fact, in my mind, I have them in groups. My high school friends group, my age group swimming teammates, my college friends, my grad school friends, the list goes on and on. But because the network is so broad, I don't have a chance to interact with most everyone as much as I would like to. Thank goodness for social media networks that let me stay in touch from afar with my different connections. In fact, for my 50th birthday, I threw a big party with friends from my very different circles of life. It was great to see them interact and celebrate with me. - Now if we charted my social network, we'd see far fewer people in my sphere, but I have deep connections with those few. I may not know a ton of people, but those in my network, I know well. In fact I still have…

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