Introvert Survival Tactics

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone – Audrey Hepburn

They may even associate people with painful or unhappy experiences.

On the first and somewhat more obvious level, they allow you to dissect and examine what you are doing with your life. They subconsciously make you ask questions like:

What do I really want to do?
What actually matters?
Why am I doing something?
What can I avoid?
Who is going to be happy from this—is it me?
Is this a real priority?
What’s my real motivation or this?

Planning around the expected expenditure and not your time availability is going to help you budget your energy better so you don’t get overwhelmed, because you manage yourself better and don’t place yourself in situations to get overwhelmed. Understand your own boundaries and, like the previous point, gain a conscious understanding of what you have been doing to yourself.

Don’t feel guilty about taking a break or not being productive for a change. It’s recovery, which is something professional athletes do between training and competition. It’s something you are entitled to, shouldn’t feel ashamed about, and ultimately need.

One of the biggest nightmares for an introvert is mandatory socializing.

Introverts have the tendency to think, overthink, reflect, and adapt to situations better than extroverts because they are more likely to be processing rather than expressing.

the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.

Respect their need for alone time and don’t take it personally.
Give them some time to adapt to new situations, because they are already uncomfortable.

It’s important for the friends of introverts to gain an understanding of their nature so they don’t take things personally when their attempts at socialization are rejected.