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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
Lawyer
Non-Fiction Writer
Writer
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Curious

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Every American was to become a performing self.
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we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.
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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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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
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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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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.
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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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(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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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
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...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.
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Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.
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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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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
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I've never given a speech without being terrified first.
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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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I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!
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