Extrospection, kind of like introspection, is important for the existence of a person. As well as for the existence of, everything.I am defining extrospection much as one defines introspection. Where you look into yourself and try to understand everything.Dictionary.com says:
Introspection
-noun
1. observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
2. the tendency or disposition to do this.
So, we could choose to define extrospection as:
Extrospection
-noun
1. observation or examination of the world's and other's mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking without of oneself.
2. the tendency or disposition to do this.
Assuming we define "the world's" as "everyone's" or "the general case's" instead of actually the planet (where everyone is not others but a more general version, another can be a single person, but everyone cannot) as well as things like divinity or physics, it would mean that extrospection is a single person looking at the world.
At the same time, there is a second context in introspection in that it is often internal. Extrospection is often external. It is looking at the world and trying to engage and discuss everything with it. I would argue that Socrates was very extrospective. He tried to understand how the world worked and how people interacted. But at the same time, also wanted to engage everyone around him with this ideas.
Also, extrospection can lead to looking at your own place in the world and how it works out.