A software engineer named Tom kicks off, describing with great passion his relief at learning that there was a physiological basis for the trait of sensitivity. Here’s the research! This is how I am!...
A mountain of recent data on open-plan offices from many different industries corroborates the results of the games. Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re...
Some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and...some humans are just the same.
It makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading intiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are more...
Taking shelter in bathrooms is a surprisingly common phenomenon, as you probably know if you’re an introvert.
Работайте в одиночку. Вы сможете создавать революционные продукты с лучшими характеристиками, если будете работать над ним самостоятельно. Не в составе группы. Не в составе команды.
When introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory—or fall quiet at dinner parties—they’re not demonstrating a failure of will or a lack of energy...
Was only once they accepted these two realities that Greg and Emily found a way to break their stalemate. Instead of focusing on the number of dinner parties they’d give, they started talking about th...
The orchid hypothesis by David Dobbs in a wonderful article in The Atlantic. This theory holds that many children are like dandelions, able to thrive in just about any environment. But others, includi...
Talk is for communicating need-to-know information; quiet and introspection are signs of deep thought and higher truth. Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid. T...
Students take ownership of their education when they learn from one another
Sometimes they’re highly empathic. It’s as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people’s emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually s...
People in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that, he has said. I draw energy from discussing ideas.
If we appreciated that not everyone aspires to be a leader in the conventional sense of the word—that some people wish to fit harmoniously into the group, and others to be independent of it.
Human extroverts have more sex partners than introverts do—a boon to any species wanting to reproduce itself—but they commit more adultery and divorce more frequently, which is not a good thing for th...
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...
Child guidance experts of the 1920s set about helping children to develop winning personalities. Until then, these professionals had worried mainly about sexually precocious girls and delinquent boys,...
Can be hard for extroverts to understand how badly introverts need to recharge at the end of a busy day. We all empathize with a sleep-deprived mate who comes home from work too tired to talk, but it’...
By creating as many restorative niches as possible in your daily life. Restorative niche is Professor Little’s term for the place you go when you want to return to your true self.
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...