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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Sunday, February first, and are you

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Speaker 1: an introvert or an extrovert? You might be neither because

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Speaker 1: there is a new personality type that could possibly help

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Speaker 1: you understand yourself or your partner better. And with that,

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Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ, an episode

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Speaker 1: in which our relationship is about to be improved significantly.

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Speaker 1: Because you have been so excited about this damn story.

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Speaker 1: I don't know anything about it. Let me get that

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Speaker 1: out of the way. I don't even know what this

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Speaker 1: new personality type is. Please explain.

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Speaker 2: You're such an outrovert. Oh, it's a what otrovert?

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Speaker 1: That sounds That doesn't sound rightt otro How do you

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Speaker 1: spell otro.

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Speaker 2: Otro v e r t otrovert?

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Speaker 1: Is it fair to say, just based on what I'm hearing?

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Speaker 1: Is it in the middle of introvert extrovert or on

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Speaker 2: So it combines both, but it's its own. It's in

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Speaker 2: its own space because otro is Spanish for other and

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Speaker 2: otrovert means one who is facing a different direction. You

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Speaker 2: don't go with the group O trovert O trovert. You

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Speaker 2: often call yourself a disruptor. Do you not.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm never a disruptor. I sit quietly in the corner.

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Speaker 1: I'm no, no, no, no. I Okay, here's the thing

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Speaker 1: that's true.

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Speaker 2: Everything you're saying actually reads with what we will explain.

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Speaker 1: What did you just say? I what do you say?

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Speaker 1: I say, I'm always disruptor?

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm the disruptor? Why am I always the disruptor?

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Speaker 2: Meaning you don't think like the rest of the group.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but oftentimes I say that because the rest of

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Speaker 1: the group is white, and I'm in a newsroom and

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Speaker 1: you're trying to offer an opinion that all of them

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Speaker 1: agree on, and I'm sitting over here with a different

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Speaker 1: perspective based on my experience, and yes, and to that

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Speaker 1: degree and other ways as well. The group wants to do.

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Speaker 2: This, Okay, so listen, keep your mind open.

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Speaker 1: But this came a mind open.

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Speaker 2: This has just my jaw has dropped researching this, and

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Speaker 2: I feel like I understand you. I actually feel like

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Speaker 2: something clicked for me reading this.

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Speaker 1: And we have known each other over ten years, we

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Speaker 1: have been best friends, and now we are in wedded

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Speaker 1: bliss and you're telling me all it took was a

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Speaker 1: damn news article.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you that's what it took. This is helping. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So you and I and I think everyone listening. Most

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Speaker 2: of us have had to take a personality test for

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Speaker 2: either a job interview. That's when I took my first one,

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Speaker 2: or sometimes just for fun. You see it online, and

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Speaker 2: so you're told in these personality tests whether or not

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Speaker 2: you're an extrovert or an introvert. I get extrovert every time.

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Speaker 2: I know that's shocking to so many people. And what

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Speaker 2: do you always end up with?

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Speaker 1: I remember us doing one in an episode. It was

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Speaker 1: an introvert exturaly, it was something else.

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Speaker 2: It's this think is the squib myers. But you got introvert?

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Speaker 1: Okay, you you yes, but it's weird. Nobody thinks I

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Speaker 1: am because I'm in front of a camera. I'm out there,

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Speaker 2: But not so wait for it. So this term outrovert,

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Speaker 2: by the way, I want to give credit where credit

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Speaker 2: is due, was recently coined by doctor Rami Kaminski. He

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Speaker 2: wrote a book this past year, The Gift of Not Belonging,

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Speaker 2: and he's a psychologist. He's got all these initials after

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Speaker 2: his name, and he went into this because he always

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Speaker 1: So what you're saying to me is a new concept.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, it is a new concept, but it has

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Speaker 2: now gotten a lot of attention because it has resonated.

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Speaker 2: It has resonated with people who now identify like this

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Speaker 2: and people who love folks. So in this episode, we'll

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Speaker 2: talk about what it is to be an outrovert, and

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Speaker 2: then we'll talk about literally advice they give people who

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Speaker 2: love outroverts. It's so fascinating. Okay. So outroverts have a

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Speaker 2: unique relational style. They lean towards empathy and friendliness. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: that's you, babe. Yet their sense of being out of

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Speaker 2: them to withdraw from some groups, and they prefer one

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Speaker 2: That is you would you not agree?

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Speaker 1: Uh? You said avoid unnecessary I'd avoid the necessary ones.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll skip out on so yes.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so this is also you. The difference

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Speaker 2: those settings. You know how to lead a group, you

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Speaker 1: I missed something. Can you start that sensati again?

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Speaker 2: Uh, It says. The difference is that outroverts are often

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Speaker 1: So we're good at doing something even though we don't

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yes, okay. So outrefferts are not antisocial, They're

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Speaker 2: not disengaged. They are often extremely observant, attuned, and sensitive

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Speaker 2: to social dynamics, but it can leave them feeling as

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Speaker 2: if they're always standing a step back. They can want

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Speaker 2: deep genuine connection while also feeling chronically unseen, misunderstood, or

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Speaker 1: I don't ever feel that okay in social groups. Right.

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Speaker 1: This is different from in social group. Say that last

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Speaker 1: sness again again, folks, I am learning this as you

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Speaker 1: all are, so give me that last sentence again.

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Speaker 2: They can want deep genuine connection while also feeling chronically unseen, misunderstood,

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Speaker 2: or dismissed in group settings. I think you have expressed

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Speaker 1: I again, I'm thinking of a work setting. In a

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Speaker 2: Okay, that we'll address that. This is so good. Okay,

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Speaker 2: here's another thing. You're gonna laugh out loud more. Here's

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Speaker 2: some more. They give a lot of examples, and I've

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Speaker 2: read several different articles. This is so interesting on here's

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Speaker 2: some info on whether or not you may be an

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Speaker 2: an utrovert. Sorry, they are not joiners. They don't join

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Speaker 2: anything that thrives on one mind steering the collective. Utroverts

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Speaker 1: One mind steering the collective. That's why I don't like

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Speaker 1: to go on vacation with groups. So you know, I refuse.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I like Sabine, and that's it because I can

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Speaker 2: That's the okay, So you're coming around now to the

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Speaker 2: ultrovert thing. They also say that outroverts don't understand the

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Speaker 2: logic of sacrificing sacrificing a differentiated mind just to conform

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Speaker 2: to the hive. To them, that surrender of individuality is

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Speaker 2: the real heresy. In fact, they make a game of

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Speaker 2: staying at the freight edges of social groups and communal

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Speaker 2: thinking because they want to avoid the hive mind. They

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Speaker 2: do not understand that, but they can count close friends

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's probably pretty true for me. Then the hive

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Speaker 1: mind thing, that's a difficult thing for me. When you

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Speaker 1: see an entire group doing something that it will impact you,

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Speaker 1: that'll be wrong. We've just had this experience recently, and

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Speaker 1: that happens all the time. I need to disrupt this

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Speaker 1: because we're going to suffer for it in a month,

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Speaker 1: a year, or two years. But then I just get

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Speaker 2: Also, hearing you say that, I've never fully understood it.

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Speaker 2: And yes, we can talk about it on racial issues

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Speaker 2: and racial lines, and that makes sense to me, but

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Speaker 2: this takes it to a whole other level. I can't

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Speaker 2: wait to read to you this next take. This is

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Speaker 2: from a therapist, and he also now says, I, after

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Speaker 2: reading this research, I am an outrovert and So here's

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Speaker 2: resonates with you in anyone listening outrovert's strength lies in

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Speaker 2: refusing the gravitational pull of the group, even when it

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Speaker 2: costs them. He calls outraverse, meek rebels. It's never our

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Speaker 2: intention to rock the boat, but what must be done

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Speaker 2: will be done. If truth asks to be spoken, we

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Speaker 2: speak it. If a boundary needs to be held, we

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Speaker 2: hold it. Our rebellion isn't loud or showy, but it

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Speaker 2: is guided by an inner moral compass that remains unwavering.

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Speaker 2: In my case, this is what he said. I crossed

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Speaker 2: more than a few lines long before I knew I

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Speaker 2: pushing buttons that no one else dared to push. I

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Speaker 2: my own life, I was typecast as the troublemaker or

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Speaker 1: Boom, you know what, I don't see that it sounds

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Speaker 1: as if you're almost an intentional rebel rouser. It sounds

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Speaker 1: shake things up or I can't sit idly by. Why

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Speaker 1: some I'm I'm gonna call out. I am not a

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Speaker 1: caller outer. I do not do it. It sounds like

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Speaker 2: Bit more aggressive, But I feel like from a from

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Speaker 2: an ideological standpoint, that is how you operate.

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Speaker 1: Now, I will sit there quiet for whatever reason. If

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Speaker 1: I'm in a group, I will sit there quiet. Let

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Speaker 2: But that's exactly a note divert. That is, that is

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Speaker 2: exactly what they're talking about. And whereas someone like me,

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Speaker 2: I will fully admit I seek validity or validation from

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Speaker 2: You do not.

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Speaker 1: No, that's true. You talk about that with me all

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting being in a relationship with someone like

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Speaker 2: that because I operate in that sphere and you don't.

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Speaker 2: And so sometimes we are misaligned in our communication because

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Speaker 2: what I want you don't need, and so what I'm

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Speaker 2: giving like it does it is interesting, and so I

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Speaker 2: feel like this makes so much sense. Now I'm curious

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Speaker 2: what you think about this. A therapist went in and

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Speaker 2: actually tried to get to understand the mindset behind an otrovert,

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Speaker 2: and they say, you may have learned early on how

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Speaker 2: to read the room, adapt or stay slightly on guard.

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Speaker 2: Would you say that you did growing up well.

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Speaker 1: Again you as a black man again? You added it

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Speaker 1: in there. We learn how to adjust to whatever room

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Speaker 1: that we are in, and certainly when you do in

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Speaker 1: a big business. Yes, code switching is thing.

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Speaker 2: how you feel about this, the childhood thing. I know

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Speaker 2: you hate going back trying to do, but most therapists do.

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Speaker 2: And okay, part of the work I've done as well.

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Speaker 1: This is what she says, what did my parents do

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Speaker 2: Come? Many otroverts come from growing up emotionally unseen, misunderstood,

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Speaker 1: Why haven't you just given me space to be myself? Okay,

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Speaker 1: with some of that thing. If you suggest, like, do

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Speaker 2: So that's that would be advice for anybody, But I

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Speaker 1: It's don't we all need and want that thing? You're

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't even hear it to go wait what you

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Speaker 2: I just maybe I understand you now, like a new level,

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Speaker 2: You should do this. It's a www. Dot Otherness Institute

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Speaker 2: Maybe we're about to get on a plane. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: Why I've already just you already told me what I

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Speaker 2: Just trying to meet you where you are, bab.

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Speaker 1: Typical, all right, folks, we always appreciate she was so

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Speaker 1: on behalf of my dear, dear lovely Extroverted Amy Robot.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you, als,