A martial arts instructor named Lateesha was first up that evening. Lateesha’s assignment was to read aloud to the class from a Robert Frost poem. With her dreadlocks and wide smile, Lateesha looked a...
الأنطوائيون , في المقابل , ربما لديهم مهارات أجتماعية قوية ويتمتعون باللقاء في الحفلات والاعمال , لكن بعد حين يرغبون لو كانوا في قمصان النوم في بيوتهم . أنهم يفضلون تكريس طاقتهم الاجتماعية لأصدقائهم ا...
Я всегда был лошадью в одноконной упряжке; я не создан для тандема или командной работы... ведь я хорошо знаю: для достижения определенной цели очень важно, чтобы один человек и мыслил, и повелевал{1}...
Психолог Ганс Айзенк, интроверсия «позволяет сосредоточить мысли на решаемых задачах и не расходовать энергию на социальные и сексуальные раздражители, не имеющие отношения к работе».
When she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was timid and shy but had the courage of a lion. They we...
We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.
We organize many of our most important institutions—our schools and our workplaces—tells a very different story. It’s the story of a contemporary phenomenon that I call the New Groupthink—a phenomenon...
They wanted their son to pursue a career in religion or education, not sales. It seems unlikely that they would have approved of a self-improvement technique called Truth or Lie. Or, for that matter,...
Some people wish to fit harmoniously into the group, and others to be independent of it. Often the most highly creative people are in the latter category.
Sensitive types think in an unusually complex fashion. It may also help explain why they’re so bored by small talk. If you’re thinking in more complicated ways, she told me, then talking about the wea...
Many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there’s something wrong with their preference for reflection, and partly because their physiologies, as we’ll see, compel them...
Knowledge is useless until it’s coupled with action.
Deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration. They’re relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.
Components of the ability to
Bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health.
Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid.
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...
We often marvel at how introverted, geeky kids blossom into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it’s not the children who change but their environments. As adults,...
This theory of extroversion is still young, and it is not absolute.
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it’s a Broadway spotlight;