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Susan Cain Quote: “When you look at big companies, almost none of the top executives are Asians. They hire someone who doesn’t know anything about the business, but maybe he can make a good presentation.”
Susan Cain Quote: “I wonder whether students like the young safety officer would be better off if we appreciated that not everyone aspires to be a leader in the conventional sense of the word – that some people wish to fit harmoniously into the group, and others to be independent of it.”
Susan Cain Quote: “But what if some kids are less prone to anxiety than others, as is true of extremely low-reactive kids? Often the best way to teach these children values is to give them positive role models and to channel their fearlessness into productive activities.”
Susan Cain Quote: “It may be that some disadvantaged kids who get into trouble suffer not solely from poverty or neglect, say those who hold this view, but also from the tragedy of a bold and exuberant temperament deprived of healthy outlets.”
Susan Cain Quote: “We can also trace our admiration of extroverts to the Greeks, for whom oratory was an exalted skill, and to the Romans, for whom the worst possible punishment was banishment from the city, with its teeming social life.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Extroverts, on the other hand, can be so intent on putting their own stamp on events that they risk losing others’ good ideas along the way and allowing workers to lapse into passivity. “Often the leaders end up doing a lot of the talking,” says Francesca Gino, “and not listening to any of the ideas that the followers are trying to provide.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Extroverts’ dopamine pathways appear to be more active than those of introverts. Another study found that extroverts who win gambling games have more activity in the reward-sensitive regions of their brains than victorious introverts do. Still other research has shown that the medial orbitofrontal cortex, a key component of the brain’s dopamine-driven reward system, is larger in extroverts than in introverts.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Not that introverts can’t be eager and enthusiastic, but we’re not as overtly expressive as extroverts.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Ericsson wondered what had happened. “I really thought about this a lot,” he recalls in an interview with Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured. If an introverted child needs help with social skills, teach her or recommend training outside class, just as you’d do for a student who needs extra attention in math or reading. But celebrate these kids for who they are.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Those who value a quiet, reflective life will feel a burden lifting from their shoulders as they read Susan Cain’s eloquent and well documented paean to introversion – and will no longer feel guilty or inferior for having made the better choice!” – MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, author of Flow and distinguished professor of Psychology and Management, Claremont Graduate University.”
Susan Cain Quote: “The footprint of a high- or low-reactive temperament never disappeared in adulthood. 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. We have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.”
Susan Cain Quote: “These students inhabit a world in which status, income, and self-esteem depend more than ever on the ability to meet the demands of the Culture of Personality. The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. The number of Americans who considered themselves shy increased from 40 percent in the 1970s to 50 percent in the 1990s, probably because we measured ourselves against ever higher standards of fearless self-presentation.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Introversion – along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole.”
Susan Cain Quote: “If you don’t love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It’s not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly. Is it any wonder that introverts like Pastor McHugh start to question their own hearts?”
Susan Cain Quote: “We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.”
Susan Cain Quote: “At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.”
Susan Cain Quote: “He hated small talk, and his interests were out of step with those of his peers.”
Susan Cain Quote: “When someone asks us “How are things?” we may give a throwaway answer, but our true response is a function of how well our core personal projects are going.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Brigham Young University management professor Bradley Agle studied the CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not better corporate performance.”
Susan Cain Quote: “So don’t mistake your child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Soft power is not limited to moral exemplars like Mahatma Gandhi. Consider, for example, the much-ballyhooed excellence of Asians in fields like math and science. Professor Ni defines soft power as “quiet persistence,” and this trait lies at the heart of academic excellence as surely as it does in Gandhi’s political triumphs. Quiet persistence requires sustained attention – in effect restraining one’s reactions to external stimuli.”
Susan Cain Quote: “It’s an authentic and elevating response to the problem of being alive in a deeply flawed yet stubbornly beautiful world.”
Susan Cain Quote: “FDR, elected at the start of the Depression, is remembered for his compassion. But it was Eleanor who made sure he knew how suffering Americans felt.”
Susan Cain Quote: “People would always tell me, ‘These are the best years of your life,’ ” he recalls. “And I would think to myself, I hope not! I hated school.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Just like a twenty-one-year-old, I’m still full of plans and ideas and excitement. But I have an acute consciousness, which I lacked fifteen years ago, that time is limited. This gives me no anxiety, at least not yet; but it does make me feel as if I should soak everything up while I still can. Carstensen told me that this was typical of midlife.”
Susan Cain Quote: “At the onset of the Culture of Personality, we were urged to develop an extroverted personality for frankly selfish reasons.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Now that you’re an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book.”
Susan Cain Quote: “The one and only personality trait the effective ones I have encountered did have in common was something they did not have: they had little or no ‘charisma’ and little use either for the term or what it signifies.” Supporting Drucker’s claim, Brigham Young University management professor Bradley Agle studied the CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not better corporate performance. We.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Many introverts seem to know these things instinctively, and resist being herded together.”
Susan Cain Quote: “No one can hear her. No one tries.”
Susan Cain Quote: “They like to read; for them there’s nothing more exciting than ideas. And some of this has to do with how they spent their time when they were growing up.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Even T. S. Eliot’s famous 1915 poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – in which he laments the need to “prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
Susan Cain Quote: “The day arrived when he stood to take the oath, at which point the chief justice ordered him to take off his turban. Gandhi saw his true limitations then. He knew that resistance would be justified, but believed in picking his battles, so he took off his headgear. His friends were upset. They said he was weak, that he should have stood up for his beliefs. But Gandhi felt that he had learned “to appreciate the beauty of compromise.”
Susan Cain Quote: “The stereotype of the university professor is accurate for so many people on campus. They like to read; for them there’s nothing more exciting than ideas. And some of this has to do with how they spent their time when they were growing up. If you spend a lot of time charging around, then you have less time for reading and learning. There’s only so much time in your life.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Gandhi’s passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the way.”
Susan Cain Quote: “But Edgar is an avowed introvert. “I’d much rather sit and read and think about things than talk to people,” he says.”
Susan Cain Quote: “While introverted Chinese-American twelve-year-olds felt perfectly fine about themselves – presumably because they still measured themselves according to their parents’ traditional value systems – by the time they got to be seventeen and had been more exposed to America’s Extrovert Ideal, their self-regard had taken a nosedive.”
Susan Cain Quote: “The risk with our students is that they’re very good at getting their way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going the right way.” If we assume that quiet and loud people have roughly the same.”
Susan Cain Quote: “We fail to realize that participating in an online working group is a form of solitude all its own.”
Susan Cain Quote: “All the comments from childhood still ring in my ears, that I was lazy, stupid, slow, boring.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Extroverts need to know that introverts – who often seem to disdain the superficial – may be only too happy to be tugged along to a more lighthearted place; and introverts, who sometimes feel as if their propensity for problem talk makes them a drag, should know that they make it safe for others to get serious.”
Susan Cain Quote: “If the idea is good, people shift. If the cause is just and you put heart into it, it’s almost a universal law: you will attract people who want to share your cause.”
Susan Cain Quote: “We don’t need giant personalities to transform companies.”
Susan Cain Quote: “The number of Americans who considered themselves shy increased from 40 percent in the 1970s to 50 percent in the 1990s, probably because we measured ourselves against ever higher standards of fearless self-presentation.”
Susan Cain Quote: “We know that there are physiological limits on who we are and how we act. But should we attempt to manipulate our behavior within the range available to us, or should we simply be true to ourselves? At what point does controlling our behavior become futile, or exhausting?”
Susan Cain Quote: “McHugh helped the students find rhythms in their lives that allowed them to claim the solitude they needed and enjoyed, and to have social energy left over for leading others.”
Susan Cain Quote: “But the more interesting aspect of this puzzling behavior is not what the extroverts do before they’ve hit the wrong button, but what they do after. When introverts hit the number nine button and find they’ve lost a point, they slow down before moving on to the next number, as if to reflect on what went wrong. But extroverts not only fail to slow down, they actually speed up.”
Susan Cain Quote: “Introverts think before they act, digest information thoroughly, stay on task longer, give up less easily, and work more accurately.”
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