“You can also teach your child simple social strategies to get him through uncomfortable moments. Encourage him to look confident even if… — Susan Cain Children 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 Business Copy Share Image
“Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory.” — Susan Cain Productivity Copy Share Image
All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its… — Susan Cain Bad side Copy Share Image
“Introverts feel “just right” with less stimulation, as when they sip wine with a close friend, solve a crossword puzzle, or read… — Susan Cain Books Copy Share Image
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — Susan Cain Achievement 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 Communication Copy Share Image
“Or you’re told that you’re “in your head too much,” a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Of course,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“What scientists haven’t realized until recently is that these risk factors have an upside. In other words, the sensitivities and the strengths… — Susan Cain Child care Copy Share Image
“high-reactive child’s ideal parent: someone who “can read your cues and respect your individuality; is warm and firm in placing demands on… — Susan Cain Academic achievement 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 Always Copy Share Image
“In fact, public speaking anxiety may be primal and quintessentially human, not limited to those of us born with a high-reactive nervous… — Susan Cain Anxiety Copy Share Image
“America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality” — Susan Cain Culture-identity 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
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
“That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when… — Susan Cain Silence Copy Share Image
“We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal—the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and… — Susan Cain Faith Copy Share Image
One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards. — Susan Cain Business Copy Share Image
“High-reactive kids also tend to think and feel deeply about what they’ve noticed, and to bring an extra degree of nuance to… — Susan Cain Children 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 Craving 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 Found 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
“Keep in mind the words of Sir Winston Churchill: 'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also… — Susan Cain Psychology Copy Share Image
