Without introverts, the world would be devoid of: the theory of gravity the theory of relativity W. B. Yeats’s The Second Coming Chopin’s nocturnes Proust’s In Search of Lost Time Peter Pan Orwell’s N...
Why shouldn’t quiet be strong?
Why are some people talkative while others measure their words? Why
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 secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it’s a Broadway spotlight;
The conference is geared to people who enjoy meaningful discussions and sometimes move a conversation to a deeper level, only to find out we are the only ones there. . . . When it's my turn, I talk ab...
Soon after being appointed CEO, Smith made a dramatic decision to sell the mills that produced the company’s core business of coated paper and invest instead in the consumer-paper-products industry, w...
Social anxiety disorder—which essentially means pathological shyness—is now thought to afflict nearly one in five of us. The most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), the...
People who pass us on the street can’t know that we’re clever and charming unless we look it.
Orison Swett Marden, who wrote Character: The Grandest Thing in the World in 1899, produced another popular title in 1921. It was called Masterful Personality. Many of these guides were written for bu...
Montgomery, Alabama. December 1, 1955. Early evening. A public bus pulls to a stop and a sensibly dressed woman in her forties gets on. She carries herself erectly, despite having spent the day bent o...
Many psychologists would also agree that introverts and extroverts work differently. Extroverts tend to tackle assignments quickly. They make fast (sometimes rash) decisions, and are comfortable multi...
Many Introverts are also highly sensitive, which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're more apt than the average person to feel pleasa...
LET YOUR FACE REFLECT CONFIDENCE, NOT WORRY! IT’S THE ‘LOOK’ OF YOU BY WHICH YOU ARE JUDGED MOST OFTEN.
Jste-li vedoucí pracovníci, nezapomínejte, že jedna třetina až jedna polovina vašich pracovních sil jsou pravděpodobně introverti, ať už se vám tak jeví, nebo ne.
It’s so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They’re valuable traits, but we p...
It’s also important for companies to groom listeners
It makes sense, then, that Westerners value boldness and verbal skill, traits that promote individuality, while Asians prize quiet, humility, and sensitivity, which foster group cohesion. If you live...