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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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Non-Fiction Writer
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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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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.
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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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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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I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.
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Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it
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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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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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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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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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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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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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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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Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
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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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