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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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Non-Fiction Writer
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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.
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One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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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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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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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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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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...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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In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?
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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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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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Every American was to become a performing self.
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It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.
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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
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Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
Susan Cain
There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.
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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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College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.
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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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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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