Introversion and extroversion depends heavily on the society a person is a part of.
The Prophet
could be considered an extreme introvert in makkan society as an orphan in a social atmosphere where he couldn't bring himself to fit in - this can be seen from his playground personality as a child, and his tendency to apend ages in solitude in a cave away from the city and other humans as an adult. However, as he began to gather people around him who were willing to think and see from the point of view that Allah
gave him and was able to make a positive difference in society - he was amongst the most forthcoming and social beings of his time, although he did retain an amount of shyness in his personality.
So it's useful to keep different means medians and modes in mind as we read articles by people who are trained to compartmentalize and deduct huge parts of the overall equation as part of their "practical" working baselines, since what is considered as practical in one human's -or community of people's- limited sphere of evaluation could be nothing more than absurdly theoretical or nonsensical in a different set of circumstances, with each individual and circumstance being unique.
Allah demonstrates this to us in the fact that He tells us that "min kum mu-min, wa min kum kaafir", as one categorization, yet in the beginning of surah al baqarah, He gives us various categories of people to think about - with the descriptions given applying to different sets of people in different circumstances.
As someone who's worked in filing and also sold computer parts which I'd have to find in one box out of many, and advertise in the least number of categories possible in order to save on fees, I can certainly tell you that the ability to do individual word searches on computers is a lot easier, but even then, it's easy to miss an item or range of items due to a similar item having a different name.
That's why we humans have court hearings on an individual basis and have judges and juries spending weeks or months to reach a verdict despite the cost in resources and time even though it would have been much cheaper to get computer software to check off a list of categories and send a bus to pick people up for the category of prison or the gallows like the skynet program in terminator salvation. Or the criminal and immoral system of red flagging and sending drones.
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