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I was lucky enough to discover a book called, The Introvert Advantage (How To Thrive in an Extrovert World), by Marti Laney, Psy.D. I feel like someone has written an encyclopedia entry on a rare race of people to which I belong. Not only has it explained many of my eccentricities, it helps me to redefine my entire life in a new and positive context. 我非常幸运的发现了这本《内向者优势——如何在外向的世界中获得成功》的好书，我感觉就好像是有人专门为我们这个罕见的小群体写了一部百科全书一样，它不仅对我的很多怪癖做了解释，还帮助我从一个崭新且积极的角度重新定义了我的整个人生。 A section of Laney’s book maps out the human brain and explains how neuro-transmitters follow different dominant paths in the nervous systems of Introverts and Extroverts. If the science behind the book is correct, it turns out that Introverts are people who are over-sensitive to Dopamine, so too much external stimulation overdoses and exhausts them. Conversely, Extroverts can’t get enough Dopamine, and they require Adrenaline for their brains to create it. Extroverts also have a shorter pathway and less blood-flow to the brain. The messages of an Extrovert’s nervous system mostly bypass the Broca’s area in the frontal lobe, which is where a large portion of contemplation takes place. Laney 的书中有个章节对人的大脑进行了分析，并解释了神经元是如何在内向者和外向者的神经系统中跟随不同的控制通路进行传递。如果这本书基于的科学理论是正确的，那就证明了内向者是一群对多巴胺过度敏感的群体，太多的外部刺激过量的消耗了它们。相反的，外向者没有足够的多巴胺，他们需要依靠大脑的肾上腺去创造它们，外向者通常有更短的神经通路，他们的大脑血流量也相对更少，外向者神经系统中的信息大部分都是通过位于前额叶的布罗卡氏区（Broca’s area）传递的，而这里正是我们的大部分思考发生的地方。 | 
