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In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?

Susan Cain

Jobs, Emotional, Skills

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Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers.

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Block, Stupid, Ideas

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.89, Broadway Books

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Every American was to become a performing self.

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Self, Performing

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.21, Broadway Books

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As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

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Party, Boys, Long

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I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

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Country, Wall, Years

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.218, Broadway Books

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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.

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Opposites, Long, Personality

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Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

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And Love, Inward, Way

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In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts were 16 percent higher than the profits of those led by introverts—but only when the employees were passive types who tended to do their job without exercising initiative. Introverted leaders had the exact opposite results. When they worked with employees who actively tried to improve work procedures, their stores outperformed those led by extroverts by more than 14 percent.

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Jobs, Exercise, Opposites

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you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind...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.

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Writing, Mean, Night

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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

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Shyness, Breeding, Mark

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.25, Broadway Books

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If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns.

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Gun, Depth, Sticks

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books

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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 who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

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Personality, Brain, Important

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Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business.

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Age, Quality, Fascination

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.23, Broadway Books

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In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

Susan Cain

Teaching, Kids, Favour

"Susan Cain: 'Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

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Class, Two, Personality

"Giving Introverts Permission to Be Themselves". Interview with Zosia Bielski, www.theglobeandmail.com. January 26, 2012.

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Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

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Self, Should, Presentation

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.33, Broadway Books

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It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.

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People, Laughing, Gone

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Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.

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Fashion, Creativity, School

"The Rise of the New Groupthink". www.nytimes.com. January 13, 2012.

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I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

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Personality, Style

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I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

Susan Cain

Jobs, Writing, Lucky

"Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking," by Susan Cain". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

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Speech, Firsts, Given

"The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

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I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

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Keys, People, Asking

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Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

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Degrees, Debate, Shyness

"The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

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Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

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Introvert, Public Speaking, Speaking In Public

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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.

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Expression, Use, Old Fashioned

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