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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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Non-Fiction Writer
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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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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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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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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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Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
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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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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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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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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
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The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
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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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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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I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!
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In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to come out of their shells - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.
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One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
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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've never given a speech without being terrified first.
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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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we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally
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