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What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?
Susan Cain
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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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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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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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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
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We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.
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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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It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
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There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!
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I've never given a speech without being terrified first.
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The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.
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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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The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.
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Shyness is inherently uncomfortable introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
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Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.
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(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.)
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Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless.
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