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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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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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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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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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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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...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.
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In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable putting himself out there.
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We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
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I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.
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One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
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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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