I was frozen—staring at my score on the first scale of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®.
Introverted.
I’d heard the word before.
But now it was describing someone who craves quiet time alone. Someone who thrives on deep thinking and careful preparation. Someone who draws energy, meaning, and direction from an inner world.
Someone for whom less is more and more is noise.
My reaction?
Holy shit.
There’s nothing wrong with me.
I’m an introvert.
And just like that—the lifelong belief that something was wrong with me . . . evaporated.
Ha ha!
No.
But I finally had a plausible alternative to consider.
Maybe my way of being is not only not-negative.
It’s positive.
And maybe I don’t have to fight against it.
I can run with it.
I’ve spent the last three decades perfecting how to do just that.
Let’s get you there quicker.
Here’s What I Believe
Four sentences, no fluff. Use this as a gut check for whether we’re a fit.
If you’re an introvert:
- You deserve to live your way.
- You’re built to live your way.
- You can live your way.
- And with the right knowledge, skills, and mindset, you will.
I’m Peter Vogt.
I’ve been obsessed with introversion since April 30, 1995—the day in grad school when I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and discovered that a) there was this thing called introversion, and b) it explained me to myself.
In the 30+ years since, I’ve taken the deepest freaking deep dive into introversion of anyone I know. I study it constantly, and of course I live it constantly too.
My work is about agency—about navigating your life by your own internal, introverted operating system in a culture that pressures you relentlessly to do the opposite.
Yes, this is hard.
And yes, this is possible.
I’m a research junkie, information synthesizer, and pattern spotter who would be a professional college student if I could get away with it.
I’m a dog person who loves cats and vice versa, a sing-in-the-car rockstar, and a brazen chocolate chip thief too.
I have a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (1998), and my thesis is actually readable. It talks about how so many “undecided” college students aren’t undecided at all. They know what they want to do; they just see it as unattainable.
I’m amazed to this day how closely that work so long ago aligns with the work I do now. All of it boils down to identifying—and then trusting—your true inner beliefs instead of trying so desperately be who you’re not, or who you think you’re supposed to be.
My one and only wish for you—whether we ever work together or not—is this:
To be who you really are,
run your own life your own damn way,
and do what you were put on this earth to do.
To be introverted on purpose.