All you introverts need to stop letting these crazies with their excessive moralizing ruin your creativity. You owe it to yourself.
Carl Jung coined the terms introversion and extraversion, and he originally defined them as follows:
An introvert is a person who begins their thinking process with a subject, then moves to an object, and then finishes their thinking process with the subject. An extrovert is the reverse- they begin their thinking process with an object and also end with an object.
Essentially what this means is that introverted thinking begins with something in ones internal world of thoughts and feelings and also ends there, while extroverted thinking begins with something outside of one's internal world and ends there. These days we tend to think of introversion and extraversion as the degree to which one is comfortable in social situations, but if anything this is only auxiliary to the original definition.
For example, it's common for extroverted thinkers to come up with moral codes by which they believe the whole world should operate. For them the source of morality comes from somewhere external, such as religious dogma, philosophy, etc (and sometimes introverted thinkers get forced into this kind of thinking unnaturally). The result is a rigid worldview based on "objective" principles, and when some aspect of themselves or the world goes against this principle, they either subtly alter the principle in their thinking or experience neurosis.
And it probably goes without saying that people who think this way are not always social, although it also isn't impossible.
If you're an introvert, you probably start with yourself in your thinking and end there as well. Which makes it especially difficult to hear all of these people telling your you're a bad person if you do x or y thing, because you can internalize it in a way that the people moralizing really can't. And that's kinda sad because that voice that you internalize that says you're a bad person for having the experience that you're having is a major block to your creativity.
In this society we're conditioned to believe that it's bad to stay in your internal world of thoughts and feelings, and that we should focus all of our attention on things outside of us. I'm here to tell you that it's a bunch of bullshit. The way that you think and interact with the world is beautiful. It's the way of thinking that births real original art.
In the words of my best friend Marty, "it's better to be yourself than to be good".
