“We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in the world. One child is given… — Susan Cain Education Copy Share Image
“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good… — Susan Cain Critical thinking Copy Share Image
So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others… — Susan Cain Depth Copy Share Image
“If there is only one insight you take away from this book, though, I hope it’s a newfound sense of entitlement to… — Susan Cain Book Copy Share Image
“As Tom talks, I think of how much I miss my husband, Ken, who’s back home in New York and not a… — Susan Cain Heart and soul Copy Share Image
“Joyce has also come to appreciate Isabel’s sensitive ways. “Isabel is an old soul,” she says. “You forget that she’s only a… — Susan Cain Children Copy Share Image
“Our personalities also shape our social styles. Extroverts are the people who will add life to your dinner party and laugh generously… — Susan Cain Dinner party Copy Share Image
“And from Isabel’s perspective, things didn’t sound alarming at all. “I need a break after school,” she told me later. “School is… — Susan Cain Communication Copy Share Image
“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is… — Susan Cain Productivity Copy Share Image
“No!" Kagan exclaims. “Every behavior has more than one cause. Don’t ever forget that! For every child who’s slow to warm up,… — Susan Cain Behavior Copy Share Image
“Studies show that the fear of public humiliation is a potent force. During the 1988-89 basketball season, for example, two NCAA basketball… — Susan Cain Fear Copy Share Image
“High-reactive introverts sweat more; low-reactive extroverts sweat less. Their skin is literally "thicker," more impervious to stimuli, cooler to the touch. In… — Susan Cain Extroverts Copy Share Image
“One noteworthy study suggests that people who suppress negative emotions tend to leak those emotions later in unexpected ways. The psychologist Judith… — Susan Cain Education Copy Share Image
“Osborn was a founding partner of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn (BBDO), but it was as an author that… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The conference is geared to people who enjoy meaningful discussions and sometimes "move a conversation to a deeper level, only to find… — Susan Cain Communication Copy Share Image
The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a… — Susan Cain Community Copy Share Image
“It was a mystery with one intriguing clue: programmers from the same companies performed at more or less the same level, even… — Susan Cain Personal space Copy Share Image
“This style of teaching reflects the business community,” one fifth-grade teacher in a Manhattan public school told me, “where people’s respect for… — Susan Cain Business Copy Share Image
“High-reactive children pay what one psychologist calls “alert attention” to people and things. They literally use more eye movements than others to… — Susan Cain Attention Copy Share Image
“Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile,… — 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 Class Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, I’ve told you my tale of abject terror because it lies at the heart of some of my most… — Susan Cain Fear Copy Share Image
Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“A martial arts instructor named Lateesha was first up that evening. Lateesha’s assignment was to read aloud to the class from a… — Susan Cain Art Copy Share Image
“The New Groupthink did not arise at one precise moment. Cooperative learning, corporate teamwork, and open office plans emerged at different times… — Susan Cain Cooperative learning Copy Share Image
“In her book Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, Carol Tavris recounts a story about a Bengali cobra that liked to bite passing villagers.… — Susan Cain Anger 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 Business Copy Share Image
“The one and only personality trait the effective ones I have encountered did have in common was something they did not have:… — Susan Cain Charisma Copy Share Image
