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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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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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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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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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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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I've never given a speech without being terrified first.
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There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.
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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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I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.
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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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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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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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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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(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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Every American was to become a performing self.
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Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.
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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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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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Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
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Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.
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