“Imagine how much better you’ll be at this sweet-spot game once you’re aware of playing it. You can set up your work,… — Susan Cain Life Copy Share Image
“Some of our greatest ideas, art, and inventions—from the theory of evolution to van Gogh’s sunflowers to the personal computer—came from quiet… — Susan Cain Art Copy Share Image
“The Extrovert Ideal has been documented in many studies, though this research has never been grouped under a single name. Talkative people,… — Susan Cain Communication Copy Share Image
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of… — Susan Cain Adults Copy Share Image
“The bag circles the table several times. Each time Maya passes it to her neighbor, saying nothing. Finally the discussion is done.… — Susan Cain Cool girl Copy Share Image
“If she still doesn’t want to talk, wait for her. Sometimes she’ll need to decompress for hours before she’s ready. You may… — Susan Cain Older sibling Copy Share Image
“If we assume that quiet and loud people have roughly the same number of good (and bad) ideas, then we should worry… — Susan Cain Bad idea Copy Share Image
“For example, highly sensitive people tend to be keen observers who look before they leap. They arrange their lives in ways that… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits—introversion, for example—but we can and do act… — Susan Cain Freedom Copy Share Image
“I have found that there are three key steps to identifying your own core personal projects. First, think back to what you… — Susan Cain Good man Copy Share Image
“Love is essential, gregariousness is optional...The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it's a Broadway… — Susan Cain Life Copy Share Image
“It’s not enough,” one senior manager at Eastman Kodak told the author Daniel Goleman, “to be able to sit at your computer… — Susan Cain Management Copy Share Image
“where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum. Our place on this continuum influences our choice of friends and mates, and how we… — Susan Cain Communication 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
“From outside the evangelical community, this seems an astonishing confession. Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to… — Susan Cain Deadly sins 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
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Agreeable people are warm, supportive, and loving; personality psychologists have found that if you sit them down in front of a computer… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“We tend to think of coolness as a pose that you strike with a pair of sunglasses, a nonchalant attitude, and drink… — Susan Cain Body language Copy Share Image
“Introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling, said Jung, extroverts to the external life of people and activities.… — Susan Cain Extroverts Copy Share Image
“Many shy people turn inward, partly as a refuge from the socializing that causes them such anxiety. And many introverts are shy,… — Susan Cain Introversion Copy Share Image
“expression on his face. He’s in his early thirties, tall and broad-shouldered, dressed in jeans, a black polo shirt, and black flip-flops.… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“We know this type of person well from literature, probably because so many writers are sensitive introverts themselves. He “had gone through… — Susan Cain Books Copy Share Image
“In a state of flow, you’re neither bored nor anxious, and you don’t question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.… — Susan Cain Flow 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 Extrovert Copy Share Image
The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating… — Susan Cain Behavior Copy Share Image
“On the other side of the debate are a group of psychologists known as the Situationists. Situationism posits that our generalizations about… — Susan Cain Identity Copy Share Image
“If you're an introvert, you also know that the bias against quiet can cause deep psychic pain. As a child you might… — Susan Cain Introvert 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 Extroverts Copy Share Image
“Try to think of happy things,” he says, caressing my forehead. I stare at the ceiling, tears welling. What happy things? Who… — Susan Cain Communication 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
“In Maya’s group, the “executive branch,” everyone is talking at once. Maya hangs back. Samantha, tall and plump in a purple T-shirt,… — Susan Cain Executive branch Copy Share Image
“Functional, moderate guilt,” writes Kochanska, “may promote future altruism, personal responsibility, adaptive behavior in school, and harmonious, competent, and prosocial relationships with… — Susan Cain Child 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, I’ve told you my tale of abject terror because it lies at the heart of some of my most… — Susan Cain Fear Copy Share Image
“A martial arts instructor named Lateesha was first up that evening. Lateesha’s assignment was to read aloud to the class from a… — Susan Cain Art Copy Share Image
“The New Groupthink did not arise at one precise moment. Cooperative learning, corporate teamwork, and open office plans emerged at different times… — Susan Cain Cooperative learning 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
