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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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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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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
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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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A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
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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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There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.
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...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all.
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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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Every American was to become a performing self.
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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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College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!
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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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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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Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.
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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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In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable putting himself out there.
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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.
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Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger it fuels it.
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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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