In our culture, guilt is a tainted word, but it’s probably one of the building blocks of conscience. The anxiety these highly sensitive toddlers feel upon apparently breaking the toy gives them the mo...
In other words, introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.
If you’re thinking in more complicated ways, she told me, then talking about the weather or where you went for the holidays is not quite as interesting as talking about values or morality.
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...
How is it that Asians and Westerners can look at the exact same classroom interactions, and one group will label it class participation and the other talking nonsense? The Journal of Research in Perso...
Highly sensitive people tend to be keen observers who look before they leap. They arrange their lives in ways that limit surprises. They're often sensitive to sights, sounds, smells, pain, coffee. The...
Her idea of a perfect start to the weekend is a quiet evening at the movies, just her and Greg.
Hans Eysenck once observed, introversion concentrates the mind on the tasks in hand, and prevents the dissipation of energy on social and sexual matters unrelated to work. In other words, if you’re in...
For very different reasons, shy and introverted people might choose to spend their days in behind-the-scenes pursuits like inventing, or researching, or holding the hands of the gravely ill—or in lead...
First, when he looked closely at the existing studies on personality and leadership, he found that the correlation between extroversion and leadership was modest. Second, these studies were often base...
Einmal schriebst Du, Du wolltest bei mir sitzen, während ich schreibe; denke nur, da könnte ich nicht schreiben... Schreiben heisst ja, sich öffnen bis zum Übermass; die äusserste Offenherzigkeit und...
Don’t mistake assertiveness or eloquence for good ideas.
Conviction is conviction, at whatever decibel level it is expressed.
College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups. Even elite athletes in team sports often spend unusual amounts of time in solitary practice. What
Can introverts be leaders? Is
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...
A hundred people are very stimulating compared to a hundred books or a hundred grains of sand. Many
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...
Where we stumble is where our treasure lies.For many introverts like David, adolescence is the great stumbling place, the dark and tangled thicket of low self-esteem and social unease. In middle and h...
When he analyzed what the highest-performing companies had in common, the nature of their CEOs jumped out at him. Every single one of them was led by an unassuming man like Darwin Smith.