I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ...… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits—introversion, for example—but we can and do act… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum. Our place on this continuum influences our choice of friends and mates, and how we make conversation,… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas,” he… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“He believes, as most of us do, that venting anger lets off steam. The “catharsis hypothesis”—that aggression builds up inside us until it’s healthily… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“Soft power is not limited to moral exemplars like Mahatma Gandhi. Consider, for example, the much-ballyhooed excellence of Asians in fields like math and… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“Social anxiety disorder”—which essentially means pathological shyness—is now thought to afflict nearly one in five of us. The most recent version of the Diagnostic… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“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… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“Osborn’s theory had great impact, and company leaders took up brainstorming with enthusiasm. To this day, it’s common for anyone who spends time in… — Susan Cain Copy Share
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. — Susan Cain Copy Share
“But as the word satyagraha implies, Gandhi’s passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“The Extrovert Ideal has been documented in many studies, though this research has never been grouped under a single name. Talkative people, for example,… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. As the influential psychologist Hans Eysenck once observed, introversion “concentrates the… — Susan Cain Copy Share
“People who tend to [suppress their negative emotions] regularly,” concludes Grob, “might start to see the world in a more negative light.” — Susan Cain Copy Share
