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.
Learned to not worry so much about the outcome,
Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.
High-reactive child’s ideal parent: someone who can read your cues and respect your individuality; is warm and firm in placing demands on you without being harsh or hostile; promotes curiosity, academ...
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...
Am a horse for a single harness, not cut out for tandem or teamwork … for well I know that in order to attain any definite goal, it is imperative that one person do the thinking and the commanding. —A...
Also why exhortations to imagine the audience in the nude don’t help nervous speakers; naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones.
[Perfectionism] keeps your work at a high quality, but often prevents you from getting your ideas out there at all, since pretty much nothing anyone does is ever perfect.
You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.
Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-conta...
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...
When the introverts were asked to work at the noise level preferred by the extroverts, and vice versa, everything changed. Not only were the introverts over-aroused by the loud noise, but they also un...
We’re best off when we don’t allow ourselves to go to our angry place. Amazingly, neuroscientists have even found that people who use Botox, which prevents them from making angry faces, seem to be les...
We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to t...
They have difficulty when being observed (at work, say, or performing at a music recital) or judged for general worthiness (dating, job interviews). But there were also new insights. The highly sensit...
These exceptional CEOs were known not for their flash or charisma but for extreme humility coupled with intense professional will.
There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. —CARL JUNG