How I Rewired My Brain to Be Ultra-Social

I’ve always been an introvert. As a kid, I spent many solitary hours taking things apart to figure out how they worked, making things with the limited resources that were available (like legos, sticks, and pieces of string), or programming computers. I didn’t have many friends and I didn’t particularly need them.

I was able to get along with people okay, but I often felt very anxious about…