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...
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...
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.
Conformists showed less brain activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but...
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Artists work best alone where they can control an invention’s design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has...
You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project th...
Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid.
What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, Ericsson told me, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achievemen...
We tend to think of coolness as a pose that you strike with a pair of sunglasses, a nonchalant attitude, and drink in hand. But maybe we didn't choose these social accessories at random. Maybe we've a...
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,...
We consume indie music and films, and generate our own online content. We think different (even if we got the idea from Apple Computer’s famous ad campaign).
We all write our life stories as if we were novelists, McAdams believes, with beginnings, conflicts, turning points, and endings. And the way we characterize our past setbacks profoundly influences ho...
Unhappy people tend to see setbacks as contaminants that ruined an otherwise good thing (I was never the same again after my wife left me), while generative adults see them as blessings in disguise (T...
The Bus to Abilene anecdote reveals our tendency to follow those who initiate action—any action.