# <center> Introversion is not the same as shyness </center>

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Do you like to be alone sometimes and people assume that you are shy? Do you think long before you speak and your colleagues think you are insecure? If you reject an invitation to a party, do your friends think you're "weird"?

Perhaps the reason is that your personality leans toward introversion, which is something other than shyness. Although there are people who often confuse both and think they are synonymous. But it's not like that. More than the outside world, an introvert gets energy from the ideas, images and memories that are in his inner world.

Introverts may seem reserved and reflective, or give the impression that they act slowly, according to this typology. They enjoy being and doing things alone, like reading, for example.

Shyness, on the other hand, is the fear that people will judge us negatively, in practically any social situation. The timid ones feel quite uncomfortable and distressed in social interactions, especially with people they do not know very well.

Shyness is rooted in fear, while introversion is simply a preference, and does not intrinsically involve nervousness or anxiety.

For example, a shy person can avoid an event to start professional relationships because it stresses the idea of ​​meeting new people (even if he really wants to go).