介绍： I actually love extroverts. I always like to say some of my best friends are extroverts, including my beloved husband. And we all fall at different points, of course, along the introvert/extrovert spectrum. Even Carl Jung, the psychologist who first popularized these terms, said that there's no such thing as ...

介绍： I actually love extroverts. I always like to say some of my best friends are extroverts, including my beloved husband. And we all fall at different points, of course, along the introvert/extrovert spectrum. Even Carl Jung, the psychologist who first popularized these terms, said that there's no such thing as a pure introvert or a pure extrovert. He said that such a man would be in a lunatic asylum, if he existed at all. And some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert/extrovert spectrum, and we call these people ambiverts. And I often think that they have the best of all worlds. But many of us do recognize ourselves as one type or the other.
我真的喜爱外向的人。我总是说我最好的几个朋友都是外向的人，包括我亲爱的丈夫。当然了我们都是在内向者到外向者这个范围的某个点上。卡尔•荣格，这个让这些名词为大众所熟知的心理学家都说，世上绝没有一个纯粹的内向的人或者一个纯粹的外向的人。他说这样的人要是存在的话，他会在精神病院里。还有一些人处在内向与外向之间，我们称这些人为“中向性格者”，我认为他们拥有世界最美好的一切， 但是我们中的大多数总是认为自己属于内向或者外向的其中一类。
spectrum /'spektrəm/ n.〔观点、人、情况等的〕范围，幅度
lunatic /'luːnətɪk/ n. 精神错乱的人，疯子
asylum /ə'saɪləm/ n. 避难，庇护；精神病院
ambivert /ˈæmbɪˌvɜːt/ n. 既外向又内向的人

And what I'm saying is that culturally, we need a much better balance. We need more of a yin and yang between these two types. This is especially important when it comes to creativity and to productivity, because when psychologists look at the lives of the most creative people, what they find are people who are very good at exchanging ideas and advancing ideas, but who also have a serious streak of introversion in them.

同时我想说从文化意义上讲我们需要一种更好的平衡。在这两种类型的人之间我们需要更多的阴阳的平衡。当涉及创造力和生产力的时候，这点是极为重要的，因为在心理学家们看待最有创造力的人的时候，他们寻找到的是那些擅长变换思维的人，提出想法的人 ，但是他们同时也有着极为显著的偏内向的性格。