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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.

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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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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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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...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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One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
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The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet.
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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 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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One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
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Every American was to become a performing self.
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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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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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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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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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We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults they get to select the careers, spouses, and social circles that suit them. They don't have to live in whatever culture they'er plunked into.
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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 use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.
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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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College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.
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The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
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It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
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