“That’s because top performers overwhelmingly worked for companies that gave their workers the most privacy, personal space, control over their physical environments,… — Susan Cain Personal space Copy Share Image
“The contrast is striking,” writes Michael Harris Bond, a cross-cultural psychologist who focuses on China. “The Americans emphasize sociability and prize those… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in… — Susan Cain Allowed Copy Share Image
Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the… — Susan Cain Able 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 Life Copy Share Image
As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an… — Susan Cain Accepting 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 Bullying Copy Share Image
“Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme, McHugh is telling us. If you don’t love Jesus out loud, then… — Susan Cain Evangelicalism 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 Fitness 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
Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive… — Susan Cain Average Copy Share Image
“They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they… — Susan Cain Close friends Copy Share Image
Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest… — Susan Cain Barriers Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took… — Susan Cain Body Copy Share Image
“Kagan hypothesized that infants born with an especially excitable amygdala would wiggle and howl when shown unfamiliar objects and grow up to… — Susan Cain Meeting new people Copy Share Image
“at the height of the crash. “Each time someone at the table pressed for more leverage and more risk, the next few… — Susan Cain Every day 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
“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
“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 Quick decisions Copy Share Image
“Many introver- ted kids grow up to have excellent so- cial skills, although they tend to join groups in their own way—waiting… — Susan Cain Children Copy Share Image
“when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in… — Susan Cain 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
Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is… — Susan Cain Cultural Copy Share Image
“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me—they’re shy and they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact,… — Susan Cain Art Copy Share Image
