Personality traits Quote by Susan Cain

“Big Five traits: Introversion-Extroversion; Agreeableness; Openness to Experience; Conscientiousness; and Emotional Stability.”

— 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

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

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

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side…

— 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

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

— Pearl S. Buck

“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

“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…

— Susan Cain

“Agreeable people are warm, supportive, and loving; personality psychologists have found that if you sit them down in front of a computer screen of…

— Susan Cain

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

— 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