Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure. Open-plan workers ar...
Of course, there’s another word for such people: thinkers.
Nor are introverts necessarily shy. Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently pa...
Nobody is going to care who won or lost any election when the earth is uninhabitable. - Al Gore
Nobody is going to care who won or lost any election when the earth is uninhabitable.
Most leading in a corporation is done in small meetings and it’s done at a distance, through written and video communications,
Moses, for example, was not, according to some interpretations of his story, the brash, talkative type who would organize road trips and hold forth in a classroom at Harvard Business School. On the co...
Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect.
Kagan has given us painstakingly documented evidence that high reactivity is one biological basis of introversion but his findings are powerful in part because they confirm what we’ve sensed all along...
Kafka, for example, couldn’t bear to be near even his adoring fiancée while he worked: You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all....
Joyce has also come to appreciate Isabel’s sensitive ways. Isabel is an old soul, she says. You forget that she’s only a child. When I talk to her, I’m not tempted to use that special tone of voice th...
Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
Introverts, in contrast, are constitutionally programmed to downplay reward—to kill their buzz, you might say—and scan for problems. As soon they get excited, says Newman, they’ll put the brakes on an...
Introverts and extroverts also direct their attention differently: if you leave them to their own devices, the introverts tend to sit around wondering about things, imagining things, recalling events...
Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the Extro...
Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrov...
In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts w...
In the United States, he feels, conversation is about how effective you are at turning your experiences into stories, whereas a Chinese person might be concerned with taking up too much of the other p...
In couples where the man is introverted and the woman extroverted, as with Sarah and Bob, we often mistake personality conflicts for gender difference,
If you're in the backyard sitting under a tree while everyone else is clinking glasses on the patio, you're more likely to have an apple fall on your head.