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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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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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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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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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One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
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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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In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?
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I've never given a speech without being terrified first.
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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
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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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We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.
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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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We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.
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Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.
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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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It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.
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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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One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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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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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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...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.
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