Otrovert & Life Decisions

Are you an Otrovert? Dangerous Dave talks about a study that says it is someone who is outgoing but a rebel. Plus, life's most stressful situations and most involve money in one way or another.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the din with dangerous day. Have
you heard this term yet? A psychiatrists coined it in
a new book coming out this year. Are an extrovert, introvert,
or you're an autrovert. It's not a mix of the two.
That's an ambivert the other or both ways are certain
ways autroverts different By definition, autro means other and the

(00:23):
top sign that you're constantly feeling like an outsider, you
never fit in. The guy who came up with it
thinks he's one. He's seen it in some of his
patients too. Autroverts can be extremely social and well liked.
They're just more of a one on one and don't
really connect with groups. He said. Autroverts tend to be
independent thinkers who aren't emotionally dependent on what others think, So,

(00:45):
in other words, are renegades. Right, He thinks that it
might fall the default setting that we're all born with,
and then we learn to be introverts or extroverts. I
don't know. I would say I'm an extrovert. Most people
would say I'm a pervert. In the two. You know,
everybody stresses over decisions, whether it's something small or something
to watch on Netflix, or something significant like a life

(01:08):
altering change like choosing a new shampoo. Large scale study
published in the Journal of Psychological Science found that some
of the life's toughest questions have a consistent theme, perceived risk.
The study asks people about their toughest most life stressful decisions.
Then they compiled a list of the riskiest choices people

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are faced with. Top ten included number one, whether to
accept a new job or not. Number two was also
quitting your job to get an alternative gig, whether to
invest money, whether to drive a car tired, buzzed or
bad weather, or whether it become self employed. At number five,
a lot of these financial lead driven whether to buy
a house, whether to get surgery, whether to get married,

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get vaccinated, and number ten whether to move to another country.
Others in the top twenty five life decisions that stress
people out whether or not to have kids, whether to
get education or training, meeting up with people, not getting insurance,
whether to leave the house at all or stay home,
which is totally relatable on a day like today. Not surprising,

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there's a wide ranger for responses. Researchers intentionally left the
concept of risk to what makes a tough, difficult choice vague.
So yeah, we have to make some tough decisions, like
shopping for my wife for Christmas. It's a tough decision.
I don't know whether to get the fur lined sinker
to get her the gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. To me

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again for another episode of Deeper in the Den with
Dangerous Dave right here.