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I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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Non-Fiction Writer
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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
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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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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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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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Shyness is inherently uncomfortable introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
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Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.
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We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.
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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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The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.
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Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless.
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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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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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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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One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
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As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.
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The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.
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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
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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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