Emily lowers her voice and flattens her affect during fights with Greg, she thinks she’s being respectful by taking the trouble not to let her negative emotions show. But Greg thinks she’s checking
Bolder animals sally forth, swallowed regularly by those farther up the food chain but surviving when food is scarce and they need to assume more risk.
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
People followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.
Neuroscientists have even found that people who use Botox, which prevents them from making angry faces, seem to be less anger-prone than those who don’t, because the very act of frowning triggers the...
Extroverts do not necessarily seek closeness from their socializing. Extroverts seem to need people as a forum to fill needs for social impact, just as a general needs soldiers to fill his or her need...
You have to be someone who speaks well and calls attention to yourself. It's an elitism based on something other than merit.
When your conscientiousness impels you to take on more than you can handle, you begin to lose interest, even in tasks that normally engage you. You also risk your physical health. Emotional labor, whi...
We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.
We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults...
We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in the world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the differe...
We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
They focused on the so-called Big Five traits: Introversion-Extroversion; Agreeableness; Openness to Experience; Conscientiousness; and Emotional Stability.
The truth is that many schools are designed for extroverts.
The evangelical culture ties together faithfulness with extroversion, McHugh explained. The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more pe...
That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.
So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If...
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of wh...
Proverbs from the East:The wind howls, but the mountain remains still.Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of silence, living alone automatically makes me refrain from the s...
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