You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react… — 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
[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Consider that the simplest social interactions between two people requires performing an astonishing array of tasks: interpreting what the other person is… — susan cain Copy Share Image
Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room,… — 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
I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the… — Susan Cain 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 Copy Share Image
.. it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading intiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. — Susan Cain 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 Copy Share Image
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real… — 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 Image
“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 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 ideas,” he… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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