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I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
Lawyer
Non-Fiction Writer
Writer
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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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[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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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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...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.
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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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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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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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We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts - which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts - in other words, one out of every two or three people you know.
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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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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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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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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.
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