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Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world,

We like to think that we value individuality, but all too often we admire one type of individual - the

One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.

To advance our careers, we're expected to promote ourselves unabashedly.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

People plunge hungrily into searching conversations. There's a lot of one-on-one discussion about intimate topics

(Taking shelter in bathrooms is a surprisingly common phenomenon, as you probably know if you're an introvert.

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.

Connecting people to fix the world over time is the deepest spiritual value you can have,' Newmark [Craigslist creator] has said.

Her idea of a perfect start to the weekend is a quiet evening at the movies, just her and Greg.

If you force extroverts to pause, says Newman, they'll do just as well as introverts at the numbers game.

In our culture, guilt is a tainted word, but it's probably one of the building blocks of conscience.

Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet - seems

FOR THE ANXIETY THAT COMES FROM NOT FITTING IN,

Unleashing a passion can transform a life ...

Don't mistake assertiveness or eloquence for good ideas.

Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones

Frustrated by the superficiality of dining-hall conversation,

It's also important for companies to groom listeners

Today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles.

Probably the most common - and damaging - misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social.

True self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

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?

[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.

LET YOUR FACE REFLECT CONFIDENCE, NOT WORRY! IT'S THE 'LOOK' OF YOU BY WHICH YOU ARE JUDGED MOST OFTEN.

38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity.

There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.

Can introverts be leaders? Is

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

(Never mind that the assistants were likely interchangeable, while Michelangelo was not.)

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

Soft power is quiet persistence.

At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.

Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

Evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups,

introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.

Introverts are "geared to inspect" and extroverts "geared to respond.

Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business ...

The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures.

Some animals carry their shelter wherever they go. Some humans are just the same.

Ericsson says that it takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise, so it helps to start young.

Knowledge is useless until it's coupled with action.

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [ ... ], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

There's only one problem with Osborn's breakthrough idea: group brainstorming doesn't actually work

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

Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time.

iconoclastically.

I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

She also knows full well that "shy" is a negative word in our society. Above all, do not shame her for her shyness.

The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.

Extroverts get better grades than introverts during elementary school, but introverts outperform extroverts in high school and college.

Introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

All of this would be fine if more talking were correlated with greater insight, but research suggests that there's no such link.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.

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.

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.

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.

(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.)

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

Potential clients would walk out of Charlie's office scared

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields.

There's nothing more exciting than ideas.

Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

All talking is selling and all selling involves talking,

Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas,

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

Who could be happy in a world of podiums and microphones?

Why are some people talkative while others measure their words? Why

She had trouble finding the sacred in the everyday; it seemed to be there only when she withdrew from the world.

The word introvert is not a synonym for hermit or misanthrope.

When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.

Aggression - Emily is uncomfortable with anger - but

Galen's Prophecy,

It's not that I'm so smart," said Einstein, who was a consummate introvert. "It's that I stay with problems longer.

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

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.

If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth.

I realize it's not true that I'm no longer shy; I've just learned to talk myself down from the ledge

Everyone shines, given the right lighting.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world,

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country ...

Aggressive power beats you up; soft power wins you over.

Most leading in a corporation is done in small meetings and it's done at a distance, through written and video communications,

Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. - ROBERT RUBIN,

America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality

It takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise,

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.