“ In Maya’s group, the executive branch, everyone is talking at once. Maya hangs back. Samantha, tall and plump in a purple T-shirt, takes charge. She pulls a sandwich bag from her knapsack and announce… Susan Cain
“ If your children are quiet, help them make peace with new situations and new people, but otherwise let them be themselves. Delight in the originality of their minds. Take pride in the strength of thei… Susan Cain
“ If we assume that quiet and loud people have roughly the same number of good (and bad) ideas, then we should worry if the louder and more forceful people always carry the day. This would mean that an… Susan Cain
“ But the catharsis hypothesis is a myth— a plausible one, an elegant one, but a myth nonetheless. Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn’t soothe anger; it fuels it. Susan Cain
“ But exceptional performance depends not only on the groundwork we lay through Deliberate Practice; it also requires the right working conditions. And in contemporary workplaces, these are surprisingly… Susan Cain
“ Buffett is known for thinking carefully when those around him lose their heads. Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ, he has said. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the t… Susan Cain
“ Brainstorming had four rules: 1. Don’t judge or criticize ideas. 2. Be freewheeling. The wilder the idea, the better. 3. Go for quantity. The more ideas you have, the better. 4. Build on the ideas of… Susan Cain
“ As an introvert might be expected to do, he’d prepared thoroughly for the speech, not only rehearsing his remarks but also making sure he could cite the latest research. Even Susan Cain
“ Anyone can be a great negotiator, I told them, and in fact it often pays to be quiet and gracious, to listen more than talk, and to have an instinct for harmony rather than conflict. With this style,… Susan Cain
“ All of which raises the question, how did we go from Character to Personality without realizing that we had sacrificed something meaningful along the way? Susan Cain
“ Alex also took advantage of his natural strengths. I learned that boys basically do only one thing: they chase girls. They get them, they lose them, they talk about them. I was like, ‘That’s completel… Susan Cain
“ A hundred people are very stimulating compared to a hundred books or a hundred grains of sand. Many Susan Cain
“ The simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity...What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity… Susan Cain
“ You once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender,… Susan Cain
“ Solitude is an important key to creativity—then we might all want to develop a taste for it. We’d want to teach our kids to work independently. We’d want to give employees plenty of privacy and autono… Susan Cain
“ Seem to need people as a forum to fill needs for social impact, just as a general needs soldiers to fill his or her need to lead, Susan Cain
“ Introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with. Susan Cain
“ Introverts are uniquely good at leading initiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are more likely to hear and… Susan Cain
“ Extroverted leaders enhance group performance when employees are passive, but that introverted leaders are more effective with proactive employees. Susan Cain
