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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
Lawyer
Non-Fiction Writer
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.
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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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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
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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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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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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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The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
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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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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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There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.
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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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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 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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I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.
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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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(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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College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.
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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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