Bad side Quote by Susan Cain

“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 under the…

— Susan Cain

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

— Susan Cain

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

— Susan Cain

“According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits—introversion, for example—but we can and do act out of…

— Susan Cain

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where…

— Susan Cain

There's a really positive side of being an introvert - you really pick up on things a lot more than your extroverted counterparts.

— Jessica Williams

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

— Pearl S. Buck

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between…

— Susan Cain

“...the results have consistently suggested that introversion and extroversion, like other major personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness, are about 40 to 50 percent heritable.”

— Susan Cain

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.

— Susan Cain

While there are relatively few extreme introverts or extroverts, most of us lean in one direction or the other. If we lean more toward…

— Vivek Murthy

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

— Susan Cain