5 February 2017

ambivert

[am-bi-vurt]

noun, Psychology.

1. one whose personality type is intermediate between extrovert and introvert.

Origin of ambivert

1925-1930; ambi- + -vert, as in extrovert, introvert

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Example

I like meeting new people, but I also need time out by myself. I’m an ambivert, which Sylvester McNutt III has provided the best description: ‘I’m both: introvert and extrovert. I like people, but I need to be alone. I’ll go out, vibe and meet new people but it has an expiration, because I have to recharge. If I don’t find the valuable alone time I need to recharge I cannot be my highest self’.

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Today’s quote

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

– Michel de Montaigne

On this day

5 February 1914 – birth of William Seward Burroughs, otherwise known as William S. Burroughs or William Lee, Beat Generation author, painter, spoken word performer. The beat generation rose to prominence in the 1950s and experimented with innovation in art, style, rules and drugs. Burroughs work includes Junkie, Queer, and Naked Lunch. Burroughs died on 2 August 1997.

5 February 1922 – Readers Digest first published by DeWitt and Lila Wallace.

5 February 2009 – China tells Canada not to accept 17 Chinese Uyghur prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. The Uyghurs had applied for refugee status in Canada. They had been arrested in Afghanistan during the 2001 US invasion.