The one and only personality trait the effective ones I have encountered did have in common was something they did not have: they had little or no ‘charisma’ and little use either for the term or what...
The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.
Talkative people are rated as smarter, better-looking, more interesting, and more desirable as friends. Velocity of speech counts as well as volume: we rank fast-talkers as more competent and likable...
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ, he has said. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. —ROBERT RUBIN,
So? You don’t have to be an extrovert to feel alive! True enough. But it seems, according to Tony, that you’d better act like one if you don’t want to flub the sales call and watch your family die lik...
Since then, some forty years of research has reached the same startling conclusion. Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases: groups of nine generate fewer and poorer ide...
Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating.
Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.
Scientists have found that nomads who inherited the form of a particular gene linked to extroversion (specifically, to novelty-seeking) are better nourished than those without this version of the gene...
Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from...
Putting theory into practice is hard for them, writes Gallagher, because their sensitive natures and elaborate schemes are unsuited to the heterogeneous rigors of the schoolyard.
Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second...
Psychologists often discuss the difference between temperament and personality. Temperament refers to inborn, biologically based behavioral and emotional patterns that are observable in infancy and ea...
Professor Richard Howard gave introverts and extroverts a complicated series of printed mazes, and found not only that the introverts tended to solve more mazes correctly, but also that they spent a m...
Probably the most common—and damaging—misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social.
Probably the most common—and damaging—misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social. But as we've seen, neither formulation is correct; introv...
Participants in brainstorming sessions usually believe that their group performed much better than it actually did, which points to a valuable reason for their continued popularity—group brainstorming...
Over-arousal doesn’t produce anxiety so much as the sense that you can’t think straight—that you’ve had enough and would like to go home now. Under-arousal is something like cabin fever. Not enough is...