We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the differ...
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
So the next time you see a person with a compose face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be depl...
Don't let anyone tell you that introverts are anti-social - we are just differently social.
…introverts, who sometimes feel as if their propensity for problem talk makes them a drag, should know that they make it safe for others to get serious (239).
The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of available power, but to use well the kind you’ve been granted.
The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.
The contrast is striking, writes Michael Harris Bond, a cross-cultural psychologist who focuses on China. The Americans emphasize sociability and prize those attributes that make for easy, cheerful as...
In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putti...
What psychologists call the need for intimacy is present in introverts and extroverts alike. In fact, people who value intimacy highly don’t tend to be, as the noted psychologist David Buss puts it, t...
We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts—which means that we’ve lost sight of who we really are.
There comes a time that people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression,
The amount of space per employee shrank from 500 square feet in the 1970s to 200 square feet in 2010, according to Peter Miscovich, a managing director at the real estate brokerage firm Jones Lang LaS...
In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?
We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive...
We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We
We like to believe that we live in a grand age of creative individualism. We look back at the midcentury era in which the Berkeley researchers conducted their creativity studies, and feel superior. Un...
Understanding your sweet spot can increase your satisfaction in every arena of your life, but it goes even further than that. Evidence suggests that sweet spots can have life-or-death consequences.
Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But gre...
We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal—the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight. The archetypal extrovert prefers action t...