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One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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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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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.
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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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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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College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.
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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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Shyness is inherently uncomfortable introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
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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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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
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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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we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally
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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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