An ambivert is someone who has both introverted and extroverted traits.
Ambiverts are in the middle of the extraversion continuum. Carl Jung was the first to discuss this “middle ground” between introversion and extroversion.
Also, although Jung did not use the exact word “ambivert,” he states that the ambivert makes up a large portion of the population.
More recently, Adam Grant supported Jung’s theory, as about two-thirds of Jung’s study participants were neither introverted nor extroverted.
Extroversion is a spectrum.
Extraversion, like many other psychological traits, is a continuum.
And what Jung and Grant discovered makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Most distribution curves have more people in the middle of the spectrum than at the ends. However, numbers can be deceiving here.
Those in the actual middle, who we might call “pure ambiverts,” may not be the majority – maybe 20% of the population.
And most people still gravitate toward one end of the spectrum.
Therefore, it is essential to recognize the direction they tend the most.