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Why Do I Feel Great After Certain Social Situations and Drained After Others
Social energy is individual. The introvert-extravert spectrum is real but it's more nuanced than the labels suggest — most people have specific types of social interactions that energise them and others that deplete t...
Why it matters
Social energy is individual. The introvert-extravert spectrum is real but it's more nuanced than the labels suggest — most people have specific types of social interactions that energise them and others that deplete them, regardless of how social they generally are. Large groups versus one-on-one. Certain people versus others. Certain environments. Certain lengths of time. Without paying attention to the pattern, you end up agreeing to things that reliably drain you and turning down things that would actually fill you up.
When Normal helps
Normal tracks your mood and energy after social interactions over time. It finds what types of social situations consistently energise you versus deplete you — giving you data to make better decisions about how you spend your social energy.
How Normal finds it
Tell Normal about your social interactions and how you feel after them. Over a month or two it finds your specific social energy pattern — which interactions give you energy and which ones cost it. Most people find the pattern is much more specific than they expected.
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Start with your body
Normal finds the pattern behind how you feel.
Tell Normal what happened in plain language. It connects your food, sleep, movement, stress, and symptoms over time.