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““Use your natural powers—of persistence, concentration, insight, and sensitivity—to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, think deeply.””

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“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of…

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“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas,” he…

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“He believes, as most of us do, that venting anger lets off steam. The “catharsis hypothesis”—that aggression builds up inside us until it’s healthily…

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“Soft power is not limited to moral exemplars like Mahatma Gandhi. Consider, for example, the much-ballyhooed excellence of Asians in fields like math and…

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“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected…

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“Social anxiety disorder”—which essentially means pathological shyness—is now thought to afflict nearly one in five of us. The most recent version of the Diagnostic…

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“Potential clients would walk out of Charlie’s office scared”

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“So when introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory- or fall quiet at dinner parties- they’re…

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“Osborn’s theory had great impact, and company leaders took up brainstorming with enthusiasm. To this day, it’s common for anyone who spends time in…

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Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

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“But as the word satyagraha implies, Gandhi’s passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert…

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“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our…

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If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition…

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Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.

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