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 Asians were far more likely to accept a proposal from the friendly business manager than from the hostile one;
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.
Studies show that the fear of public humiliation is a potent force. During the 1988-89 basketball season, for example, two NCAA basketball teams played eleven games without any spectators, owing to a...
Studies show that one third to one half of us are introverts. This means that you have more introverted kids in your class than you think. Even at a young age, some introverts become adept at acting l...
Studies have shown that, indeed, introverts are more likely than extroverts to express intimate facts about themselves online that their family and friends would be surprised to read, to say that they...
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only fifty-five percent, say it as if you believe it a hundred percent. If you’re preparing alone for class, then you’re doing it wrong. Nothing at...
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...
Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.
Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time.
Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time. What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduce...
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...
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...
Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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...