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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.

Susan Cain

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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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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...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.
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When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.
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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 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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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
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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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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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Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
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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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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
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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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I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.
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