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The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
Lawyer
Non-Fiction Writer
Writer
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Life

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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.
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...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all.
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Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
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But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.
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Every American was to become a performing self.
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The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.
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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
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Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.
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Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!
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College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.
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There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.
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It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
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Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine it must be displayed publicly.
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When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.
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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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Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
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What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.
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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.
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When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.
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