Forget introverts and extroverts. Are you secretly an otrovert?

But no, the Otrovert is a new entry into the dictionary of personality types and is an outlier in the threesome of introverts and extroverts and ambiverts. An otrovert is a different kind of animal completely, Kaminsky wrote in his research. Picture: Hein KaiserThe defining feature of an otrovert is some kind of sense of otherness, like swimming upstream, almost inevitably. While many people fall somewhere between the two binaries of introversion and extroversion, otroverts are just permanent outsiders. The boldness is intellectual and creative, not always behavioural.”“Society needs otroverts,” Redelinghuys said.