First, when he looked closely at the existing studies on personality and leadership, he found that the correlation between extroversion and leadership was modest. Second, these studies were often base...
Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time. What look...
Even T. S. Eliot’s famous 1915 poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—in which he laments the need to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
Einmal schriebst Du, Du wolltest bei mir sitzen, während ich schreibe; denke nur, da könnte ich nicht schreiben... Schreiben heisst ja, sich öffnen bis zum Übermass; die äusserste Offenherzigkeit und...
Don’t mistake assertiveness or eloquence for good ideas.
Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achievement. When you practice deliberately, you identify the tasks or knowledge that are just out of your reach, strive to upgra...
Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.
Conviction is conviction, at whatever decibel level it is expressed.
College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups. Even elite athletes in team sports often spend unusual amounts of time in solitary practice.
Career counselor Shoya Zichy told me the story of one of her clients, an introverted financial analyst who worked in an environment where she was either presenting to clients or talking to colleagues...
By 1950, the slogan of he Mid-Century White House Conference on Children and Youth was A healthy personality for every child.
At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.
At the onset of the Culture of Personality, we were urged to develop an extroverted personality for frankly selfish reasons—as a way of outshining the crowd in a newly anonymous and competitive societ...
At the Foley Center for the Study of Lives at Northwestern University, McAdams studies the stories that people tell about themselves. We all write our life stories as if we were novelists, McAdams bel...
As she grew older and ventured outside her family's orbit, she continued to notice things about herself that seemed different from the norm. She could drive alone for hours and never turn on the radio...
As children, our classroom desks are increasingly arranged in pods, the better to foster group learning, and research suggests that the vast majority of teachers believe that the ideal student is an e...
As Jung felicitously put it, There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
And every day, Don wrestles with himself. Should he go back to his apartment and recharge over a quiet lunch, as he longs to do, or join his classmates?
Americans revered action and were suspicious of intellect, associating the life of the mind with the languid, ineffectual European aristocracy they had left behind.
America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality