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Reactive and Proactive

Introverted SPS's are reactive whereas extroverted non-SPS folks are the adventurers out there exploring the frontiers (proactive).

Richard
Jul 17, 2021
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Image Above - The Canadian Jay or Whiskey Jack, a very proactive bird.

Two models of psychology from the 1990s recently caught my attention. They posit an idea about human personality that seems to resonate with the reading I have been doing on the trait of high sensitivity.

The models hypothesize that there is a sub-group of humans who are sensitive in a…

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