Extroverted leaders enhance group performance when employees are passive, but that introverted leaders are more effective with proactive employees.
Expression on his face. He’s in his early thirties, tall and broad-shouldered, dressed in jeans, a black polo shirt, and black flip-flops. With his short brown hair, reddish goatee, and sideburns, McH...
Evangelical churches often make extroversion a prerequisite for leadership, sometimes explicitly. The priest must be … an extrovert who enthusiastically engages members and newcomers, a team player, r...
Assumes that it’s good to accentuate positive emotions, but that isn’t correct, the psychology professor Richard Howard told me, pointing to the example of soccer victories that end in violence and pr...
A recent study found that people learn better after a quiet stroll through the woods than after a noisy walk down a city street.
A high-reactive child’s ideal parent: someone who can read your cues and respect your individuality; is warm and firm in placing demands on you without being harsh or hostile; promotes curiosity, acad...
Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business...
Why shouldn’t quiet be strong?
Why are some people talkative while others measure their words? Why
When introverts hit the number nine button and find they’ve lost a point, they slow down before moving on to the next number, as if to reflect on what went wrong. But extroverts not only fail to slow...
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...
We tend to forget that there’s nothing sacrosanct about learning in large group classrooms, and that we organize students this way not because it’s the best way to learn but because it’s cost-efficien...
Those who live the most fully realized lives—giving back to their families, societies, and ultimately themselves—tend to find meaning in their obstacles.
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. —LAO ZI, The Way of Lao Zi
This is the final piece of Free Trait Theory. A Free Trait Agreement acknowledges that we’ll each act out of character some of the time—in exchange for being ourselves the rest of the time. It’s a Fre...
They found a striking difference among the groups. All three groups spent the same amount of time—over fifty hours a week—participating in music-related activities. All three had similar classroom req...
The catharsis hypothesis—that aggression builds up inside us until it’s healthily released—dates back to the Greeks, was revived by Freud, and gained steam during the let it all hang out 1960s of punc...
The Bus to Abilene anecdote reveals our tendency to follow those who initiate action—any action. We are similarly inclined to empower dynamic speakers.
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.