Or you’re told that you’re in your head too much, a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Of course, there’s another word for such people: thinkers.
Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.
No! Kagan exclaims. Every behavior has more than one cause. Don’t ever forget that! For every child who’s slow to warm up, yes, there will be statistically more high-reactives, but you can be slow to...
Introverts often have one or two deep interests that are not necessarily shared by their peers. Sometimes they’re made to feel freaky for the force of these passions, when in fact studies show that th...
In other words, introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly. Free Trait Theory explains why an introv...
If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth.
Iconoclast, the neuroeconomist Gregory Berns
High-reactive kids also tend to think and feel deeply about what they’ve noticed, and to bring an extra degree of nuance to everyday experiences.
Galen’s Prophecy,
But without Emily, Greg would feel—paradoxically for such a social creature—alone. Before they met, most of Greg’s girlfriends were extroverts. He says he enjoyed those relationships, but never got to...
A shy man no doubt dreads the notice of strangers, but can hardly be said to be afraid of them. He may be as bold as a hero in battle, and yet have no self-confidence about trifles in the presence of...
The results have consistently suggested that introversion and extroversion, like other major personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness, are about 40 to 50 percent heritable.
All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.
We can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, b...
Not everyone aspires to be a leader in the conventional sense of the word—that
Learned to not worry so much about the outcome,
Kids stop learning when they feel emotionally threatened.
It’s always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world,
Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.
Introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition