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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.
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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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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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Every American was to become a performing self.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!
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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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we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally
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In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to come out of their shells - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.
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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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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 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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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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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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There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.
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One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
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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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...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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I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.
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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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