Interesting. I would consider myself heavily extroverted since I have an innate natural desire not necessarily at all to be "accepted" by peers, but rather I've just always derived high levels of mental stimulation from social interactions and although timid and shy in my younger years, I eventually pushed myself to become more confident approaching strangers and striking up conversations.

I just find it so fascinating to meet different kinds of personalities and to feel the emotional affects of these people as rapport grows and I can get them to share more and more over time.

I studied Psychology in college (along with Russian randomly enough), mainly because of this inherent desire to interact with as many different people and learn as much as I could about the different drivers of human behavior, emotions and always got off on the idea of being so honed into understanding social dynamics on the micro and macro that I could get closer and closer to being able to anticipate the types of responses people would give me depending on their personality type, the behavior and whatever other factors might apply.

All this to say, I eventually discovered that in order to build the largest following of friends who genuinely admired their relationship with me, it was a consistently important thing to be completely outcome independent. In other words, I realized that by freeing myself from the reactions people gave me in our interactions (especially when it came to picking up women), it dissolved the intuitively felt feeling of neediness from the person and ironically I would often be able to invoke the exact responses of admiration and respect I consciously desired.

So over time, I conditioned myself even as an extrovert, that freedom from outcome AKA not giving a fuck about what people wanted or expected from me, and instead acting in ways that expressed authenticity in my own feelings and emotions, was ironically the best way to get people to like me.