Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home… — Susan Cain Business Copy Share Image
“The one and only personality trait the effective ones I have encountered did have in common was something they did not have:… — Susan Cain Charisma 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… — Susan Cain Goals 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 Blessings in disguise Copy Share Image
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless… — Susan Cain Brain Copy Share Image
“If there is only one insight you take away from this book, though, I hope it’s a newfound sense of entitlement to… — Susan Cain Book Copy Share Image
“As Tom talks, I think of how much I miss my husband, Ken, who’s back home in New York and not a… — Susan Cain Heart and soul Copy Share Image
“Joyce has also come to appreciate Isabel’s sensitive ways. “Isabel is an old soul,” she says. “You forget that she’s only a… — Susan Cain Children 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 Dinner party Copy Share Image
“And from Isabel’s perspective, things didn’t sound alarming at all. “I need a break after school,” she told me later. “School is… — Susan Cain Communication Copy Share Image
“We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in the world. One child is given… — Susan Cain Education 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
“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good… — Susan Cain Critical thinking Copy Share Image
“One noteworthy study suggests that people who suppress negative emotions tend to leak those emotions later in unexpected ways. The psychologist Judith… — Susan Cain Education 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 Behavior Copy Share Image
“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is… — Susan Cain Productivity Copy Share Image
“Studies show that the fear of public humiliation is a potent force. During the 1988-89 basketball season, for example, two NCAA basketball… — Susan Cain Fear Copy Share Image
“High-reactive introverts sweat more; low-reactive extroverts sweat less. Their skin is literally "thicker," more impervious to stimuli, cooler to the touch. In… — Susan Cain Extroverts Copy Share Image
“This style of teaching reflects the business community,” one fifth-grade teacher in a Manhattan public school told me, “where people’s respect for… — Susan Cain Business Copy Share Image
“High-reactive children pay what one psychologist calls “alert attention” to people and things. They literally use more eye movements than others to… — Susan Cain Attention Copy Share Image
“The conference is geared to people who enjoy meaningful discussions and sometimes "move a conversation to a deeper level, only to find… — Susan Cain Communication Copy Share Image
“Osborn was a founding partner of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn (BBDO), but it was as an author that… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a… — Susan Cain Community 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
“How is it that Asians and Westerners can look at the exact same classroom interactions, and one group will label it “class… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“When Professor Little introduced the concept of self-monitoring to his personality psychology classes, some students got very worked up about whether it… — Susan Cain Psychology 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… — Susan Cain Brainstorming Copy Share Image
“According to Jay Belsky, a leading proponent of this view and a psychology professor and child care expert at the University of… — Susan Cain Child care Copy Share Image
“Extroverts are better than introverts at handling information overload. Introverts' reflectiveness uses up a lot of cognitive capacity, according to Joseph Newman.… — Susan Cain Information overload Copy Share Image
“Why do we accept this one-size-fits-all situation as a given when we know perfectly well that adults don’t organize themselves this way?… — Susan Cain Children Copy Share Image
We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of… — Susan Cain Book Copy Share Image
“If you’re an introvert, find your flow by using your gifts. You have the power of persistence, the tenacity to solve complex… — Susan Cain Extrovert 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… — Susan Cain Academic excellence Copy Share Image
“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is… — Susan Cain Productivity 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… — Susan Cain Fear Copy Share Image
“But the most interesting part of Thorne’s experiment was how much the two types appreciated each other. Introverts talking to extroverts chose… — Susan Cain Communication Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t concerned with getting credit or even with being in charge; he simply assigned work to those who could perform it… — Susan Cain Delegating Copy Share Image
“they wanted their son to pursue a career in religion or education, not sales. It seems unlikely that they would have approved… — Susan Cain Education Copy Share Image
“introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. As the influential psychologist Hans Eysenck once observed, introversion… — Susan Cain Introversion 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
