Catalyst

My boyfriend told me recently that I talk too much. In fact, to quote him I "talk more than anyone [he] know[s]." Since I have met people who talk more than I, I have accepted this remark, with an understanding that it is coming from someone who consider himself an introvert. He had always thought of me as one of the most extroverted people he knows, but, although I know I am more extroverted than him, all the tests I have taken that determine these things rate me as a slight extrovert.

However, I do not deny that I like to talk. Especially when in a comfortable setting with people I enjoy talking with. And, that said, I guess I try to find myself in that situation more often than not. So, yes, I do like to talk, but I also listen.

Some of what brought this up is that my boyfriend is reading a book called The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World.
He read some of this to me, as well as reading more on his own. Later we talked about it, and he had a lot of insights about the premise and how it relates to him. I was amused by the conclusion he had while I was rambling about some point I was making in that conversation that my thought process, and therefore the way I talked, was akin to a fractal. Anyone who knows how I converse that I have told this too can see what he means. In an attempt to curb the need to go into details, I will leave it up to you to figure out how that applies to me.