Train yourself to spend energy on what’s truly meaningful to you instead of on activities that look like they’ll deliver a quick buzz of money or status or excitement. Teach yourself to pause and refl...
This theory of extroversion is still young, and it is not absolute.
This style of teaching reflects the business community, one fifth-grade teacher in a Manhattan public school told me, where people’s respect for others is based on their verbal abilities, not their or...
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
The evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups, writes the organizational psychologist Adrian Furnham. If you have talented and motivated people, th...
The word introvert is not a synonym for hermit or misanthrope.
The way forward, I’m suggesting, is not to stop collaborating face-to-face, but to refine the way we do it. For one thing, we should actively seek out symbiotic introvert-extrovert relationships, in w...
The things that interested him, music and writing, held no value for the people who mattered most back then: his peers. People would always tell me, ‘These are the best years of your life,’ he recalls...
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk.
The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to int...
The parents of high-reactive children are exceedingly lucky, Belsky told me. The time and effort they invest will actually make a difference. Instead of seeing these kids as vulnerable to adversity, p...
The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies...
The next generation of quiet kids can and should be raised to know their own strengths.
The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings. Although flow does not depend on being an introvert or an extrovert, many of the flow experiences that Csiksze...
The introverted leaders were 20 percent more likely to follow the suggestion—and their teams had 24 percent better results than the teams of the extroverted leaders.
The archetypal extrovert prefers action to contemplation, risk-taking to heed-taking, certainty to doubt. He favors quick decisions, even at the risk of being wrong. She works well in teams and social...
The Subarctic Survival Situation may sound like a harmless game played inside the ivory tower, but if you think of meetings you’ve attended, you can probably recall a time—plenty of times—when the opi...
The Internet’s role in promoting face-to-face group
The Extrovert Ideal has been documented in many studies, though this research has never been grouped under a single name. Talkative people, for example, are rated as smarter, better-looking, more inte...