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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've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!
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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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(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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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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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
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One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
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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 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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[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.
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Every American was to become a performing self.
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America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.
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One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
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A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and 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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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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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
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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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Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.
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