Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess sucha key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventur...
The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.
But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institu...
Consider that the simplest social interactions between two people requires performing an astonishing array of tasks: interpreting what the other person is saying; reading body language and facial expr...
Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.
This would not have come as news to Jason Fried, cofounder of the web application company 37signals. For ten years, beginning in 2000, Fried asked hundreds of people (mostly designers, programmers, an...
The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.
High-reactive kids who enjoy good parenting, child care, and a stable home environment tend to have fewer emotional problems and more social skills than their lower-reactive peers, studies show.
It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.
[P]arents need to step back from their own preferences and see what the world looks like to their quiet children.
Many shy people turn inward, partly as a refuge from the socializing that causes them such anxiety. And many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there’s something wron...
Iconoclast, the neuroeconomist Gregory Berns
The truth is that many schools are designed for extroverts.
Most great ideas spring from solitude.
Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth.
When your conscientiousness impels you to take on more than you can handle, you begin to lose interest, even in tasks that normally engage you. You risk your physical health. 'Emotional labor,' which...
I was the nicest person you'd ever want to know, Alex recalls, but the world wasn't that way. The problem was that if you were just a nice person, you'd get crushed. I refused to live a life where peo...