This guest post is a very personal and articulate piece about personal identity and introversion by Nick Shackleton-Jones. He’s kindly allowed me to publish it here which I’ve done because I’ve been considering issues about identity and social interaction but never successfully put those thoughts in writing. I do recognise much of what Nick is saying but it’s not presented as a surrogate portrait of me. It’s a interesting insight into the mind of a type of person whose natural preference is to keep much hidden.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this…