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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.

Susan Cain

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
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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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It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
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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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(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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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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College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.
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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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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.
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