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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
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Humans

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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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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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Shyness is inherently uncomfortable introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
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We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.
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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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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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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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Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.
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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
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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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There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.
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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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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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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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I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.
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...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all.
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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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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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One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
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