“Introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling, said Jung, extroverts to the external life of people and activities.… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Love is essential, gregariousness is optional...The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it's a Broadway… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Imagine how much better you’ll be at this sweet-spot game once you’re aware of playing it. You can set up your work,… — Susan Cain 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 Copy Share Image
“I was the nicest person you'd ever want to know," Alex recalls, "but the world wasn't that way. The problem was that… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it’s a Broadway spotlight;” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“At the Foley Center for the Study of Lives at Northwestern University, McAdams studies the stories that people tell about themselves. We… — Susan Cain 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 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 Copy Share Image
“But the same receptivity to experience that can make life difficult for the highly sensitive also builds their consciences. Aron tells of… — Susan Cain 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 Copy Share Image
...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“On August 15, 2008, Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable, the online guide to social media, weighed in. “Wouldn’t it be a… — 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
