and is depleting. The WTBS requires extroversion at all times. Just to "cover" a territory puts on anyone a heavy demand to react with no preparation to multiple attacks, insults, complaints, or whatever waits at the next house. Public talks, constant meetings, street witnessing, "incidental" witnessing to unsuspecting "worldly friends or complete strangers. No vacation to escape and reflect...just another big meeting with added stress of looking for a mate. All of this calls for a kind of extroversion that can only be marvelled at, and indeed was admired by Nazi propagandists.
I remember one elder's critique of me when under consideration for "promotion"
"...... doesn't "think on his feet." Which means making the kind of snap decisions that come easily to extroverts.
About half of us are introverts....what cost has it inflicted on us to act severely "counter-dispositionally" as Psychology Today put it last year?
"Researchers have found introverts who act extraverted show slower reaction times on subsequent cognitive tests than those allowed to act introverted. Their cognitive fatigue testifies to the fact that acting counter-dispositionally is depleting."
"Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them...e-mail does."

I remember one elder's critique of me when under consideration for "promotion"
About half of us are introverts....what cost has it inflicted on us to act severely "counter-dispositionally" as Psychology Today put it last year?
"Researchers have found introverts who act extraverted show slower reaction times on subsequent cognitive tests than those allowed to act introverted. Their cognitive fatigue testifies to the fact that acting counter-dispositionally is depleting."
"Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them...e-mail does."
