His attitude to life is one that of striving
to adjust and harmonize with externals as
given.
He is oriented by tangible facts, and takes
often the latter as face value; can be critical
nonetheless, and able to stick a subjective
imprint, a personal view on his perceptions
but he cannot help go against his inclination
that what is to come first is complete assimilation.
The attitude of the extraverted to life is
as an empiricist's approach to knowledge.
A rationalist would reject experience as the
basis for accumulating facts.
He believes the mind has all prerequisites
to understand the world; a priori capacities.
The empiricist on the other side has to have
observed evidence in order to ascertain the
truth; a posteriori; such is the case for
the extraverted.
But here we speak not of the search for knowledge
but of the very attitude of an individual.
His consciousness reacts by getting immersed
into what surrounds it; instead of making
subjective impressions upon externals the
extraverted does not ponder much about what's
in front of him.
The joy is of being in the moment, and therefore
he can easily become adapted to, and oriented
by the object.
"If a man thinks, feels, acts, and actually
lives in a way that is directly correlated
with the objective conditions and their demands,
he is extraverted."
It might be even hard to imagine for extraverts
themselves as I describe their nature at the
moment.
But if they are to ponder about their daily
reactions they would probably conclude the
same:
They are well able to put a subjective mark
on something, but the latter have little power.
Objective conditions, and the ever-changing
environment, are the only determining factors
in the life of an extravert.
He cannot see value in what's going on inside
his head.
In fact it is quite difficult to make use
of imagination, to introspect.
He has little knowledge of his inner life,
for what runs it are factors learnt from outside
himself.
"His whole consciousness looks outward, because
the essential and decisive determination always
comes from outside.
But it comes from outside only because that
is where he expects it to come from."
His consciousness scans the environment first.
Instead sticking subjective thoughts on what
he sees for instance by thinking "how does
this object relate to me", "what does this
object remind me of?", he perceives, simply.
Whatever passes by is mirrored in his psyche
as is, everything follows the same pattern.
Nothing is pondered upon or colored by personal
impressions.
He has no impressions upon what is perceived.
Everything comes in and out of him as in tact
as given in reality.
("maybe" the opposite would be the introverted
who has to colour the external with his fantasies,
anticipations, and fears about, and from the
object.)
HIS ATTENTION:
The attention of the extravert is constantly
allured, and stimulated by things and people
in his immediate surroundings.
Therefore he may derive a pleasure from aestetics,
external looks and design.
HIS ACTIONS :
The extraverted conscious mind has an active
influence on the world.
It is seldom reactive, external stimuli can
rarely shove the extravert in his head and
make him ponder before doing.
It appears that the consciousness of this
type can swiftly deconstruct complexity, illicits
hasty problem solving, inducing a seemless
but steady adaptation; since the conscious
is constantly priming itself to adjust to
the next stimuli, actions are often immediate
and unthoughtful.
Objective events are what kindle the extravert's
fascination, and direct his actions.
He is not reactive but adaptable to the changing
circumstances.
His consciousness reflects the real-time objective
experience of reality.
Subjective and reflective thoughts, impressions
on surroundings, their importance not as much
emphasized as the here and now; what matters
most is not what he thinks about something,
but the thing itself as it is without any
subjective thoughts thrown onto it.
Since he is less reflective, he could have
the closest perspective on the concrete and
thus able to better appeal to the tools of
logic and come up with non-biased decisions.
This ability to see reality as is, purely
reflected onto his psyche promises ease of
adaptability.
Intentions take no long to be acted upon,
for the less time he takes to think about
doing (which is his nature), the faster it
is to execute.
Imprinting his own fantasies, worries or anticipations
onto the object is one useless psychological
strategy to him.
The object per se without any subjective alterations,
he sees in it enough potential to satiate
his consciousness.
Pleasure is derived from what he could do
with the thing instead of what he anticipates
he might or might not do, or what may follow.
"The actions of the extravert are recognizably
related to external conditions.
In so far as they are not merely reactive
to environmental stimuli, they have a character
that is always adapted to the actual circumstances,
and they find sufficient play within the limits
of the objective situation."
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