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...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
Lawyer
Non-Fiction Writer
Writer
True
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Self
Way
Competence
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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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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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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'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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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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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
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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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The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet.
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Every American was to become a performing self.
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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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Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.
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I've never given a speech without being terrified first.
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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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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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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?
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we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally
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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.
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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
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Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth.
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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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