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The word personality didn't exist in English until the eighteenth century, and the idea of "having a good personality" was not widespread until the twentieth. -- Susan Cain
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His hypothesis was that extroverted leaders enhance group performance when employees are passive, but that introverted leaders are more effective with proactive employees. -- Susan Cain
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They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. -- Susan Cain
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If you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all. -- Susan Cain
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But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think. -- Susan Cain
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All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side. -- Susan Cain
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All of which raises the question, how did we go from Character to Personality without realizing that we had sacrificed something meaningful along the way? -- Susan Cain
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A reward-sensitive person is highly motivated to seek rewards - from a promotion to a lottery jackpot to an enjoyable evening out with friends. Reward sensitivity motivates us to pursue goals like sex and money, social status and influence. -- Susan Cain
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We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected. -- Susan Cain
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But the same receptivity to experience that can make life difficult for the highly sensitive also builds their consciences. Aron tells of one sensitive teen who persuaded his mother to feed a homeless person he'd met in the park, and of another eight-year-old who cried -- Susan Cain
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Purification and redemption are such recurrent themes in ritual because there is a clear and ubiquitous need for them: we all do regrettable things as a result of our own circumstances, and new rituals are frequently invented in response to new circumstances. -- Susan Cain
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There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. -- Susan Cain
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What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world? -- Susan Cain
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Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas, -- Susan Cain
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We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted. -- Susan Cain
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College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups. -- Susan Cain
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In our culture, guilt is a tainted word, but it's probably one of the building blocks of conscience. -- Susan Cain
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If you force extroverts to pause, says Newman, they'll do just as well as introverts at the numbers game. -- Susan Cain
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Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being. -- Susan Cain
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You will find this hard to believe, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer. When you're working 16 hours a day for months at a time, you get punchy. Everything and everyone seems hilarious. -- Susan Cain
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Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. - ROBERT RUBIN, -- Susan Cain
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Those who live the most fully realized lives - giving back to their families, societies, and ultimately themselves - tend to find meaning in their obstacles. -- Susan Cain
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I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I'm never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward. -- Susan Cain
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When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge. -- Susan Cain
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Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid. -- Susan Cain
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It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population. We discovered this with women decades ago, and now it's time to realize it with introverts. -- Susan Cain
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That's why Professor Little, the consummate introvert, lectures with such passion. Like a modern-day Socrates, he loves his students deeply; opening their minds and attending to their well-being are two of his core personal projects. When -- Susan Cain
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Unleashing a passion can transform a life ... -- Susan Cain
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Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity ... In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing. -- Susan Cain
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Men regarded ability in speaking as a peculiar gift, needed only by the lawyer, clergyman, or statesman. Today we have come to realize that it is the indispensable weapon of those who would forge ahead in the keen competition of business. -- Susan Cain
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In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford. -- Susan Cain
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Evangelical churches often make extroversion a prerequisite for leadership, sometimes explicitly. "The priest must be ... an extrovert who enthusiastically engages members and newcomers, a team player," reads an ad for a position as associate rector of a 1,400-member parish. -- Susan Cain
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Many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there's something wrong with their preference for reflection, and partly because their physiologies, as we'll see, compel them to withdraw from high-stimulation environments. -- Susan Cain
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I want to change the world in my own way. So I do stuff that's artificial. I don't really like being the guest at someone else's party, because then I have to be entertaining. But I'll host parties because it puts you at the center of things without actually being a social person. -- Susan Cain
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That was what collaboration meant for Steve Woz: the ability to share a donut and a brainwave with his laid-back, nonjudgmental, poorly dressed colleagues - who minded not a whit when he disappeared into his cubicle to get the real work done. -- Susan Cain
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It can be hard for extroverts to understand how badly introverts need to recharge at the end of a busy day. We all empathize with a sleep-deprived mate who comes home from work too tired to talk, but it's harder to grasp that social overstimulation can be just as exhausting. -- Susan Cain
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Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements. -- Susan Cain
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He also suffered from a certain amount of what he calls "reputational confusion," in which he became known for being over-the-top effervescent, and the reputation fed on itself. This was the persona that others knew, so it was the persona he felt obliged to serve up. -- Susan Cain
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I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together. -- Susan Cain
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Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. -- Susan Cain
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If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. -- Susan Cain
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Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They're associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure. -- Susan Cain
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Restorative niche' is Professor Little's term for the place you go when you want to return to your true self. It can be a physical place, like the path beside the Richelieu River, or a temporal one, like the quiet breaks you plan between sales calls. -- Susan Cain
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To ask whether it's nature or nurture, says Kagan, is like asking whether a blizzard is caused by temperature or humidity. It's the intricate interaction between the two that makes us who we are. -- Susan Cain
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(You wouldn't be reading this book if I hadn't convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.) -- Susan Cain
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we revere our founding fathers precisely because they were loudmouths on the subject of freedom: Give me liberty or give me death! -- Susan Cain
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Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever. -- Susan Cain
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi - all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to. -- Susan Cain
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Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers. -- Susan Cain
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The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet. -- Susan Cain
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He also suggests "No-Talk Thursdays," one day a week in which employees aren't allowed to speak to each other. -- Susan Cain
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Or at school you might have been prodded to come "out of your shell" - that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same. -- Susan Cain
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We tend to forget that there's nothing sacrosanct about learning in large group classrooms, and that we organize students this way not because it's the best way to learn but because it's cost-efficient, -- Susan Cain
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I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time. -- Susan Cain
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She also knows full well that "shy" is a negative word in our society. Above all, do not shame her for her shyness. -- Susan Cain
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Introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition -- Susan Cain
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I am a horse for a single harness, not cut out for tandem or teamwork ... for well I know that in order to attain any definite goal, it is imperative that one person do the thinking and the commanding. - ALBERT EINSTEIN -- Susan Cain
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Because conflict-avoidant Emily would never "bite" or even hiss unless Greg had done something truly horrible, on some level she processes his bite to mean that she's terribly guilty - of something, anything, who knows what? -- Susan Cain
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Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes. -- Susan Cain
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Nobody is going to care who won or lost any election when the earth is uninhabitable. -- Susan Cain
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The word satyagraha implies, Gandhi's passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the way. -- Susan Cain
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For many introverts like David, adolescence is the great stumbling place, the dark and tangled thicket of low self-esteem and social unease. In middle and high school, the main currency is vivacity and gregariousness; attributes like depth and sensitivity don't count for much. -- Susan Cain
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[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly. -- Susan Cain
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Students take ownership of their education when they learn from one another -- Susan Cain
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We like to think that we value individuality, but all too often we admire one type of individual - the -- Susan Cain
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In other words, introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly. -- Susan Cain
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(Never mind that the assistants were likely interchangeable, while Michelangelo was not.) -- Susan Cain
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Temperament refers to inborn, biologically based behavioral and emotional patterns that are observable in infancy and early childhood; personality is the complex brew that emerges after cultural influence and personal experience are thrown into the mix. -- Susan Cain
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If this is true - if solitude is an important key to creativity - then we might all want to develop a taste for it. We'd want to teach our kids to work independently. -- Susan Cain
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Introverts feel "just right" with less stimulation, as when they sip wine with a close friend, solve a crossword puzzle, or read a book. Extroverts enjoy the extra bang that comes from activities like meeting new people, skiing slippery slopes, and cranking up the stereo. -- Susan Cain
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Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai, whose entire investment strategy was based on FUD: they placed bets that had limited downside, but would pay off handsomely if dramatic but unexpected changes occurred in the market. -- Susan Cain
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Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting. -- Susan Cain
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Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet - seems -- Susan Cain
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Bolder animals sally forth, swallowed regularly by those farther up the food chain but surviving when food is scarce and they need to assume more risk. -- Susan Cain
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I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings. -- Susan Cain
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Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time. -- Susan Cain
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Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent. -- Susan Cain
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And every day, Don wrestles with himself. Should he go back to his apartment and recharge over a quiet lunch, as he longs to do, or join his classmates? -- Susan Cain
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Don is "a bitter introvert," as he cheerfully puts it - bitter because the more time he spends at HBS, the more convinced he becomes that he'd better change his ways. -- Susan Cain
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Probably the most common - and damaging - misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social. -- Susan Cain
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Most leading in a corporation is done in small meetings and it's done at a distance, through written and video communications, -- Susan Cain
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It's also vital to recognize that many people - especially introverts like Steve Wozniak - need extra quiet and privacy in order to do their best work. -- Susan Cain
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The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it. -- Susan Cain
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If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure". -- Susan Cain
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Our schools should teach children the skills to work with others- cooperative learning can be effective when practiced well and in moderation- but also the time and training they need to deliberately practice on their own. -- Susan Cain
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The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They -- Susan Cain
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Solitude is one of our great superpowers ... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions. -- Susan Cain
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The simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity ... What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent. -- Susan Cain
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Try to think of happy things," he says, caressing my forehead. I stare at the ceiling, tears welling. What happy things? Who could be happy in a world of podiums and microphones? "There are a billion people in China who don't give a rat's ass about your speech," Ken offers sympathetically. -- Susan Cain
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That was exactly what happened - the conformists showed less brain activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem. -- Susan Cain
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By the time I was old enough to figure out that I was simply introverted, it was a part of my being, the assumption that there is something inherently wrong with me. I wish I could find that little vestige of doubt and remove it. -- Susan Cain
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Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not. -- Susan Cain
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Osborn was a founding partner of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn (BBDO), but it was as an author that he really made his mark, beginning with the day in 1938 that a magazine editor invited him to lunch and asked what his hobby was. "Imagination," replied Osborn. -- Susan Cain
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People plunge hungrily into searching conversations. There's a lot of one-on-one discussion about intimate topics -- Susan Cain
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Who could be happy in a world of podiums and microphones? -- Susan Cain
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Usually they're carried away by people who are assertive and domineering. The risk with our students is that they're very good at getting their way. But that doesn't mean they're going the right way." If -- Susan Cain
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Today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. -- Susan Cain
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To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business. -- Susan Cain
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Still, there's a limit to how much we can control our self-presentation. This is partly because of a phenomenon called behavioral leakage, in which our true selves seep out via unconscious body language: -- Susan Cain
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We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally. -- Susan Cain
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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it. -- Susan Cain
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The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers
of persistence, concentration, and insight
to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply. -- Susan Cain
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Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. -- Susan Cain
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Knowledge is useless until it's coupled with action. -- Susan Cain
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The results have consistently suggested that introversion and extroversion, like other major personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness, are about 40 to 50 percent heritable. -- Susan Cain
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FOR THE ANXIETY THAT COMES FROM NOT FITTING IN, -- Susan Cain
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Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them. -- Susan Cain
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Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. -- Susan Cain
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I was the nicest person you'd ever want to know," Alex recalls, "but the world wasn't that way. The problem was that if you were just a nice person, you'd get crushed. I refused to live a life where people could do that stuff to me. -- Susan Cain
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Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. -- Susan Cain
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At IBM, a corporation that embodied the ideal of the company man, the sales force gathered each morning to belt out the company anthem, "Ever Onward," and to harmonize on the "Selling IBM" song, set to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain. -- Susan Cain
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One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards. -- Susan Cain
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So when introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory- or fall quiet at dinner parties- they're not demonstrating a failure or a lack of energy. They're simply doing what they're constitutionally suited for (237). -- Susan Cain
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What is the inner behavior of people whose most visible feature is that when you take them to a party they aren't very pleased about it? -- Susan Cain
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Love is essential, gregariousness is optional. -- Susan Cain
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At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability. -- Susan Cain
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True self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around. -- Susan Cain
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In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like? -- Susan Cain
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As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need. -- Susan Cain
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Bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health. -- Susan Cain
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She had trouble finding the sacred in the everyday; it seemed to be there only when she withdrew from the world. -- Susan Cain
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Introverts just just don't buzz as easily. -- Susan Cain
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Aggression - Emily is uncomfortable with anger - but -- Susan Cain
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The amount of space per employee shrank from 500 square feet in the 1970s to 200 square feet in 2010, according to Peter Miscovich, a managing director at the real estate brokerage firm Jones Lang LaSalle. -- Susan Cain
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America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality -- Susan Cain
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McHugh helped the students find rhythms in their lives that allowed them to claim the solitude they needed and enjoyed, and to have social energy left over for leading others. -- Susan Cain
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Americans revered action and were suspicious of intellect, associating the life of the mind with the languid, ineffectual European aristocracy they had left behind. -- Susan Cain
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Conversely, high-reactive children may be more likely to develop into artists and writers and scientists and thinkers because their aversion to novelty causes them to spend time inside the familiar - and intellectually fertile - environment of their own heads. -- Susan Cain
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What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank. -- Susan Cain
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Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers. -- Susan Cain
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There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions. -- Susan Cain
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Brainstorming had four rules: 1. Don't judge or criticize ideas. 2. Be freewheeling. The wilder the idea, the better. 3. Go for quantity. The more ideas you have, the better. 4. Build on the ideas of fellow group members. -- Susan Cain
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Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured. -- Susan Cain
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Evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups, -- Susan Cain
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Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. -- Susan Cain
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Her idea of a perfect start to the weekend is a quiet evening at the movies, just her and Greg. -- Susan Cain
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It takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise, -- Susan Cain
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(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.) -- Susan Cain
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Frustrated by the superficiality of dining-hall conversation, -- Susan Cain
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When someone asks us "How are things?" we may give a throwaway answer, but our true response is a function of how well our core personal projects are going. -- Susan Cain
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Finally, pay attention to what you envy. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. I -- Susan Cain
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Everyone shines, given the right lighting. -- Susan Cain
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Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform. The -- Susan Cain
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I realize it's not true that I'm no longer shy; I've just learned to talk myself down from the ledge -- Susan Cain
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People who tend to [suppress their negative emotions] regularly," concludes Grob, "might start to see the world in a more negative light. -- Susan Cain
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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness. -- Susan Cain
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Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only fifty-five percent, say it as if you believe it a hundred percent. -- Susan Cain
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Some of the world's most talented people are introverts. Without them we wouldn't have the Apple computer, the theory of relativity or Van Gogh's sunflowers. -- Susan Cain
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Connecting people to fix the world over time is the deepest spiritual value you can have,' Newmark [Craigslist creator] has said. -- Susan Cain
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I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style. -- Susan Cain
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They focused on the so-called Big Five traits: Introversion-Extroversion; Agreeableness; Openness to Experience; Conscientiousness; and Emotional Stability. -- Susan Cain
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When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [ ... ], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion. -- Susan Cain
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Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply -- Susan Cain
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America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover. -- Susan Cain
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I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts. -- Susan Cain
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When you practice deliberately, you identify the tasks or knowledge that are just out of your reach, strive to upgrade your performance, monitor your progress, and revise accordingly. -- Susan Cain
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In our house, reading was the primary group activity. On Saturday afternoons we curled up with our books in the den. It was the best of both worlds: you had the animal warmth of your family right next to you, but you also got to roam around the adventure-land inside your own head. -- Susan Cain
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Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess sucha key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own. -- Susan Cain
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What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement. -- Susan Cain
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But exceptional performance depends not only on the groundwork we lay through Deliberate Practice; it also requires the right working conditions. And in contemporary workplaces, these are surprisingly hard to come by. -- Susan Cain
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not uncomfortable with who they are, but are uncomfortable with expressing who they are. In a group, there's always that pressure to be outgoing. When they don't live up to it, you can see it in their faces." Mike -- Susan Cain
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. -- Susan Cain
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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding. -- Susan Cain
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Soft power is quiet persistence. -- Susan Cain
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Aggressive power beats you up; soft power wins you over. -- Susan Cain
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In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.' -- Susan Cain
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I've never given a speech without being terrified first. -- Susan Cain
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Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time. -- Susan Cain
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A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology. -- Susan Cain
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Understanding your sweet spot can increase your satisfaction in every arena of your life, but it goes even further than that. Evidence suggests that sweet spots can have life-or-death consequences. -- Susan Cain
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Potential clients would walk out of Charlie's office scared -- Susan Cain
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Amazingly, neuroscientists have even found that people who use Botox, which prevents them from making angry faces, seem to be less anger-prone than those who don't, because the very act of frowning triggers the amygdala to process negative emotions. -- Susan Cain
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There's nothing more exciting than ideas. -- Susan Cain
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Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe -- Susan Cain
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One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming. -- Susan Cain
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Some animals carry their shelter wherever they go. Some humans are just the same. -- Susan Cain
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Quiet demonstrates just how deep and disturbing is this plague of extroverts - the showoffs, risk-takers, salesmen, charmers, charlatans and politicians." - New York Post -- Susan Cain
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The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures. -- Susan Cain
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Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, -- Susan Cain
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There's only one problem with Osborn's breakthrough idea: group brainstorming doesn't actually work -- Susan Cain
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One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards. -- Susan Cain
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All of this would be fine if more talking were correlated with greater insight, but research suggests that there's no such link. -- Susan Cain
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It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. -- Susan Cain
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The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal. -- Susan Cain
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Introverts are "geared to inspect" and extroverts "geared to respond. -- Susan Cain
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introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with. -- Susan Cain
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There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet. -- Susan Cain
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While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields. -- Susan Cain
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It's not that I'm so smart," said Einstein, who was a consummate introvert. "It's that I stay with problems longer. -- Susan Cain
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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions. -- Susan Cain
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Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones -- Susan Cain
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Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme ... If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly. -- Susan Cain
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You can't pick up a business magazine ever without seeing the word 'collaborate' splashed all over it. I think people are probably feeling assaulted by the need to always be on and always be interacting. -- Susan Cain
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38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. -- Susan Cain
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Extroverts get better grades than introverts during elementary school, but introverts outperform extroverts in high school and college. -- Susan Cain
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I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country ... -- Susan Cain
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Don't mistake assertiveness or eloquence for good ideas. -- Susan Cain
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I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy. -- Susan Cain
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Here's a rule of thumb for networking events: one new honest-to-goodness relationship is worth ten fistfuls of business cards. Rush home afterward and kick back on your sofa. Carve out restorative niches. -- Susan Cain
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Can introverts be leaders? Is -- Susan Cain
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The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure they're talk-show ready. -- Susan Cain
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All talking is selling and all selling involves talking, -- Susan Cain
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The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself. -- Susan Cain
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Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business ... -- Susan Cain
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A shy man no doubt dreads the notice of strangers, but can hardly be said to be afraid of them. He may be as bold as a hero in battle, and yet have no self-confidence about trifles in the presence of strangers.
Charles Darwin -- Susan Cain
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Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. -- Susan Cain
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I'm insatiably curious about human nature. -- Susan Cain
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it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world, -- Susan Cain
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We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. -- Susan Cain
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A few things introverts are not: The word introvert is not a synonym for hermit or misanthrope. Introverts can be these things, but most are perfectly friendly. -- Susan Cain
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not everyone aspires to be a leader in the conventional sense of the word - that -- Susan Cain
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old! -- Susan Cain
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Why are some people talkative while others measure their words? Why -- Susan Cain
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(Taking shelter in bathrooms is a surprisingly common phenomenon, as you probably know if you're an introvert. -- Susan Cain
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It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there. -- Susan Cain
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Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting? -- Susan Cain
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In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go. -- Susan Cain
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Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. -- Susan Cain
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Ericsson says that it takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise, so it helps to start young. -- Susan Cain
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I've never been in a group environment in which I didn't feel obliged to present an unnaturally rah-rah version of myself. -- Susan Cain
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To advance our careers, we're expected to promote ourselves unabashedly. -- Susan Cain
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If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. -- Susan Cain
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We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run. -- Susan Cain
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We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal - the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight. -- Susan Cain
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It's also important for companies to groom listeners -- Susan Cain
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Whenever you're in an army group and somebody says, 'I think we're all getting on the bus to Abilene here,' that is a red flag. -- Susan Cain
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iconoclastically. -- Susan Cain
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LET YOUR FACE REFLECT CONFIDENCE, NOT WORRY! IT'S THE 'LOOK' OF YOU BY WHICH YOU ARE JUDGED MOST OFTEN. -- Susan Cain
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Galen's Prophecy, -- Susan Cain
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The word introvert is not a synonym for hermit or misanthrope. -- Susan Cain
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Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love. -- Susan Cain
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Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. -- Susan Cain