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...
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...
If this is true—if solitude is an important key to creativity—then we might all want to develop a taste for it. We’d want to teach our kids to work independently. We’d want to give employees plenty of...
Emily is talking to Greg about dinner parties, not divorce, but her communication style echoes Celia’s. When she and Greg disagree, her voice gets quiet and flat, her manner slightly distant. What she...
Aron has noted that sensitive people tend to speak softly because that’s how they prefer others to communicate with them.
You want to make sure that your spouse cares what other people think. It’s better to mind too much than to mind too little.
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.
To advance our careers, we’re expected to promote ourselves unabashedly.
These findings suggest something very important: introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.
The word personality didn’t exist in English until the eighteenth century, and the idea of having a good personality was not widespread until the twentieth.
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel unde...
If you're an introvert, find your flow by using your gifts. You have the power of persistence, the tenacity to solve complex problems, and the clear-sightedness to avoid pitfalls that trip others up....
Galen’s Prophecy,
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose un...
Our reverence for alpha status blinds us to things that are good and smart and wise. For
Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and one of the wealthiest men in the world, has used exactly the attributes we’ve explored in this chapter—intellectual persistence, prudent thinking, and the ab...
There’s a word for people who are in their heads too much: thinkers.
She had trouble finding the sacred in the everyday; it seemed to be there only when she withdrew from the world.