I think a distinction needs to be made here:
it is easy to change one's ideas, opinions, beliefs, etc.
It may also be possible to overcome irrational fears - or perhaps even irrational dreams/hopes/desires quickly.
However, deep-down-personality has a very great inertia because it is not irrational, or dysfunctional. No one can claim that any one of the MBTI types is dysfunctional. These preferences and other such deep-set preferences, which form individual character cannot be changed by shallow decisions of whim, or ideological descisions of 'what's best/better' etc.
Find someone who from infancy was introverted and who in adult years became extroverted in a healthy (stress-free) way - and you have found someone exceptionally rare. Conversely, find someone who has been extroverted since infancy - and who in adult years does not feel deprived by prolonged solitude - and again you will have found a very rare individual.
it is easy to change one's ideas, opinions, beliefs, etc.
It may also be possible to overcome irrational fears - or perhaps even irrational dreams/hopes/desires quickly.
However, deep-down-personality has a very great inertia because it is not irrational, or dysfunctional. No one can claim that any one of the MBTI types is dysfunctional. These preferences and other such deep-set preferences, which form individual character cannot be changed by shallow decisions of whim, or ideological descisions of 'what's best/better' etc.
Find someone who from infancy was introverted and who in adult years became extroverted in a healthy (stress-free) way - and you have found someone exceptionally rare. Conversely, find someone who has been extroverted since infancy - and who in adult years does not feel deprived by prolonged solitude - and again you will have found a very rare individual.
