[pedalpete]

My question exactly. They place extraversion as if it is a positive trait, which automatically suggests introversion is a negative trait.

It's probably just poor choice of langauge.

Sociability may be a better term. We benefit from relationships and hermits are unlikely to form close relationships. I feel as if the person is suggesting that being sociable and being extraverted are the same thing. They are not.

But also, how silly is the recommendation of how to be more extraverted. "Go to events and meet new people". I stopped reading at that point.

[bee_rider]

I think “sociability” would be a bad switch because the intuitive meaning of “sociability” would also imply some amount of agreeable-ness, right? Better to keep the basis orthogonal!

Sociability also sounds… good, right? Extroversion/introversion sounds more neutral to me.

Anyway, whatever we call it, I don’t think the author was trying to call extroversion universally good. Rather, they had identified their level of introversion as a problem, so the correction they wanted to apply was in the direction of extroversion. They just wanted to move closer to the middle, from an extreme.