Best Susan Cain Sayings
- Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds… Achievement
- 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. Appealing
- Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who… Core
- We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness. Class
- ...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No… Always Turn
- The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. Inspirational
- Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not… Connection
- But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of… Activate
- It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. Boundaries
- We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short… Ask
- Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry… Animal
- As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was… Accepting
- There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. Best
- Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.… Better
- The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your… Art
- I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering… Age
- It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only… Anyone
- Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Free
- Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives… Brain
- We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run. Build
- 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. It's so… Ability
- Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business... Age
- We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber,… All
- 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 in… Along
- So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel… Breadth
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