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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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we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally
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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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We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts - which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts - in other words, one out of every two or three people you know.
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Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.
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As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.
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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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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.
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We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.
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Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.
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Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.
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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
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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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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
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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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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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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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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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Every American was to become a performing self.
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We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults they get to select the careers, spouses, and social circles that suit them. They don't have to live in whatever culture they'er plunked into.
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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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