And we all fall at different points, of course, along the introvert extrovert spectrum.

And some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert extrovert spectrum, and we call these people ambiverts.

Even Carl Jung, the psychologist who first popularized these terms, said that there's no such thing as a pure introvert or a pure extrovert.

And the vast majority of teachers reports believing that the ideal student is an extrovert as opposed to an introvert, even though introverts actually get better grades and are more knowledgeable, according to research.

So even if you're an extrovert yourself, I'm talking about your coworkers and your spouses and your children and the person sitting next to you right now all of them subject to this bias that is pretty deep and real in our society.

I could have told you 50 others just like it all the times that I got the message that somehow my quiet and introverted style of being was not necessarily the right way to go, that I should be trying to pass as more of an extrovert.