“So? You don’t have to be an extrovert to feel alive!” True enough. But it seems, according to Tony, that you’d better… — Susan Cain Extrovert Copy Share Image
“We consume indie music and films, and generate our own online content. We “think different” (even if we got the idea from… — Susan Cain Indie 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
“Amazingly, neuroscientists have even found that people who use Botox, which prevents them from making angry faces, seem to be less anger-prone… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Use your natural powers—of persistence, concentration, insight, and sensitivity—to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, think… — Susan Cain Focus Copy Share Image
“…introverts, who sometimes feel as if their propensity for problem talk makes them a drag, should know that they make it safe… — Susan Cain Introverts Copy Share Image
“Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people are like extroverts, but the effort costs them in… — Susan Cain Authenticity Copy Share Image
“To ask whether it's nature or nurture, says Kagan, is like asking whether a blizzard is caused by temperature or humidity. It's… — Susan Cain Evolution Copy Share Image
Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for… — Susan Cain Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“Alex also took advantage of his natural strengths. “I learned that boys basically do only one thing: they chase girls. They get… — Susan Cain Nature Copy Share Image
“Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achievement. When you practice deliberately, you identify the tasks or knowledge… — Susan Cain Deliberate Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy,… — Susan Cain Aloof Copy Share Image
“It’s not always so easy, it turns out, to identify your core personal projects. And it can be especially tough for introverts,… — Susan Cain Introverts Copy Share Image
“Kagan has given us painstakingly documented evidence that high reactivity is one biological basis of introversion but his findings are powerful in… — Susan Cain Hay fever Copy Share Image
Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend… — Susan Cain Apprehension Copy Share Image
“And it suggests, says Jadzia Jagiellowicz, the lead scientist at Stony Brook, that sensitive types think in an unusually complex fashion. It… — Susan Cain Leadership Copy Share Image
In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how… — Susan Cain Emotional Copy Share Image
“Cancel your next meeting,” he advises. “Don’t reschedule it. Erase it from memory.” He also suggests “No-Talk Thursdays,” one day a week… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's… — Susan Cain Attention Copy Share Image
“Everything in the service involved communication,” he says with gentle exasperation. “Greeting people, the lengthy sermon, the singing. There was no emphasis… — Susan Cain Communication Copy Share Image
“But exceptional performance depends not only on the groundwork we lay through Deliberate Practice; it also requires the right working conditions. And… — Susan Cain Deliberate practice Copy Share Image
“when introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory—or fall quiet at dinner parties—they’re not… — Susan Cain Books Copy Share Image
“She had strong, sometimes disturbing dreams at night. She was “strangely intense,” and often beset by powerful emotions, both positive and negative.… — Susan Cain Dreams 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 Extrovert Copy Share Image
“The evangelical culture ties together faithfulness with extroversion,” McHugh explained. “The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs… — Susan Cain Evangelical Copy Share Image
“At IBM, a corporation that embodied the ideal of the company man, the sales force gathered each morning to belt out the… — Susan Cain Business Copy Share Image
Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“In a sense, Csikszentmihalyi transcends Aristotle; he is telling us that there are some activities that are not about approach or avoidance,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“It may be that some disadvantaged kids who get into trouble suffer not solely from poverty or neglect, say those who hold… — Susan Cain 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
“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
“it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading initiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of… — Susan Cain Introvert Copy Share Image
You will find this hard to believe, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer.… — 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… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“At the onset of the Culture of Personality, we were urged to develop an extroverted personality for frankly selfish reasons—as a way… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“It’s also why exhortations to imagine the audience in the nude don’t help nervous speakers; naked lions are just as dangerous as… — Susan Cain Lion Copy Share Image
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve… — Susan Cain Free time Copy Share Image
“I want to change the world in my own way. So I do stuff that’s artificial. I don’t really like being the… — Susan Cain Change the world Copy Share Image
...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion… — Susan Cain Meetings Copy Share Image
You can't pick up a business magazine ever without seeing the word 'collaborate' splashed all over it. I think people are probably… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
