“We've known about the transcendant power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.” — Susan Cain Solitude Copy Share Image
“Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“As Jung felicitously put it, “There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would… — Susan Cain Extrovert Copy Share Image
“The “Bus to Abilene” anecdote reveals our tendency to follow those who initiate action—any action.” — Susan Cain Anecdote Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What is the inner behavior of people whose most visible feature is that when you take them to a party they aren't… — Susan Cain Behavior Copy Share Image
“(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 Book Copy Share Image
“Ericsson wondered what had happened. “I really thought about this a lot,” he recalls in an interview with Daniel Coyle, author of… — Susan Cain Interview Copy Share Image
It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Gandhi himself ultimately rejected the phrase “passive resistance,” which he associated with weakness, preferring satyagraha, the term he coined to mean “firmness… — Susan Cain Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ,” he has said. “Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to… — Susan Cain Customer Copy Share Image
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit… — Susan Cain Art 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 Class Copy Share Image
“They like to read; for them there’s nothing more exciting than ideas. And some of this has to do with how they… — Susan Cain Books Copy Share Image
Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers… — Susan Cain Concentration Copy Share Image
“In Maya’s group, the “executive branch,” everyone is talking at once. Maya hangs back. Samantha, tall and plump in a purple T-shirt,… — Susan Cain Executive branch Copy Share Image
“A very different study, in which robots interacted with stroke patients during physical rehabilitation exercises, yielded strikingly similar results. Introverted patients responded… — Susan Cain Extroverts Copy Share Image
“Try to think of happy things,” he says, caressing my forehead. I stare at the ceiling, tears welling. What happy things? Who… — Susan Cain Communication Copy Share Image
In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom,… — Susan Cain Best way Copy Share Image
“On the other side of the debate are a group of psychologists known as the Situationists. Situationism posits that our generalizations about… — Susan Cain Identity Copy Share Image
The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating… — Susan Cain Behavior Copy Share Image
“If you're an introvert, you also know that the bias against quiet can cause deep psychic pain. As a child you might… — Susan Cain Introvert Copy Share Image
“The archetypal extrovert prefers action to contemplation, risk-taking to heed-taking, certainty to doubt. He favors quick decisions, even at the risk of… — Susan Cain Extrovert Copy Share Image
As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they… — Susan Cain Child Copy Share Image
Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. — Susan Cain Introverts Copy Share Image
“The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures.” — Susan Cain Health Copy Share Image
“If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".” — Susan Cain Creativity Copy Share Image
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements. — Susan Cain Achievement Copy Share Image
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population. — Susan Cain Energy Copy Share Image
“You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.” — Susan Cain Conscience Copy Share Image
“Why shouldn’t quiet be strong? And what else can quiet do that we don’t give it credit for?” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting? — Susan Cain Self Copy Share Image
Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition” — Susan Cain Extroverts Copy Share Image
“The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.” — Susan Cain Introverts Copy Share Image
The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness. — Susan Cain Bias Copy Share Image
“Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only fifty-five percent, say it as if you believe it a hundred percent.” — Susan Cain Faith Copy Share Image
Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the… — Susan Cain Clubs Copy Share Image
