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....
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.
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...
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.
Our reverence for alpha status blinds us to things that are good and smart and wise. For
It makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading initiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are mor...
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...
This teacher was kind and well-intentioned, but I wonder whether students like the young safety officer would be better off if we appreciated that not everyone to be a leader in the conventional sens...
These findings suggest something very important: introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.
The upsides of the high-reactive temperament have been documented in exciting research that scientists are only now beginning to pull together. One of the most interesting findings, also reported in D...
The New Groupthink is also practiced in our schools, via an increasingly popular method of instruction called cooperative or small group learning. In many elementary schools, the traditional rows of s...
She had trouble finding the sacred in the everyday; it seemed to be there only when she withdrew from the world.
Outstanding introverted leaders, such as Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Patrick White and Arthur Boyd, who have created either new fields of thought or rearranged existing knowledge, have spent long per...
One noteworthy study suggests that people who suppress negative emotions tend to leak those emotions later in unexpected ways. The psychologist Judith Grob asked people to hide their emotions as she s...
My impression of you, Professor Ni told Raj gently, is that I can give you a lot of work to do, but I don't have to pay much attention to you. Remember, in Silicon Valley, you can be the smartest, mos...
Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.