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We like to think that we value individuality, but all too often we admire one type of individual - the
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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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Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
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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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People plunge hungrily into searching conversations. There's a lot of one-on-one discussion about intimate topics
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(Taking shelter in bathrooms is a surprisingly common phenomenon, as you probably know if you're an introvert.
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If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
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In our culture, guilt is a tainted word, but it's probably one of the building blocks of conscience.
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FOR THE ANXIETY THAT COMES FROM NOT FITTING IN,
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Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only fifty-five percent, say it as if you believe it a hundred percent.
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It's also important for companies to groom listeners
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She lied to me today," Archie said.
"A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible. — Chelsea Cain
"A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible. — Chelsea Cain
Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.
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Introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition
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I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.
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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.
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Evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups,
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I realize it's not true that I'm no longer shy; I've just learned to talk myself down from the ledge
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Aggression - Emily is uncomfortable with anger - but
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We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.
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it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world,
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All of this would be fine if more talking were correlated with greater insight, but research suggests that there's no such link.
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Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time.
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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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38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity.
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LET YOUR FACE REFLECT CONFIDENCE, NOT WORRY! IT'S THE 'LOOK' OF YOU BY WHICH YOU ARE JUDGED MOST OFTEN.
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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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What is the inner behavior of people whose most visible feature is that when you take them to a party they aren't very pleased about it?
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Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.
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Can introverts be leaders? Is
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(Never mind that the assistants were likely interchangeable, while Michelangelo was not.)
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Soft power is quiet persistence.
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America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality
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Everyone shines, given the right lighting.
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People who tend to [suppress their negative emotions] regularly," concludes Grob, "might start to see the world in a more negative light.
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Galen's Prophecy,
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They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation.
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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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Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.
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It's not that I'm so smart," said Einstein, who was a consummate introvert. "It's that I stay with problems longer.
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I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.
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She had trouble finding the sacred in the everyday; it seemed to be there only when she withdrew from the world.
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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 authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure they're talk-show ready.
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I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
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The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.
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At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.
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I've never been in a group environment in which I didn't feel obliged to present an unnaturally rah-rah version of myself.
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Probably the most common - and damaging - misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social.
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we revere our founding fathers precisely because they were loudmouths on the subject of freedom: Give me liberty or give me death!
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iconoclastically.
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Finally, pay attention to what you envy. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. I
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The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures.
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Most leading in a corporation is done in small meetings and it's done at a distance, through written and video communications,
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It takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise,
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Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
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There's nothing more exciting than ideas.
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He also suggests "No-Talk Thursdays," one day a week in which employees aren't allowed to speak to each other.
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Whenever you're in an army group and somebody says, 'I think we're all getting on the bus to Abilene here,' that is a red flag.
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Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.
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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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(You wouldn't be reading this book if I hadn't convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.)
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Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
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While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields.
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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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