All of this gives them a big advantage over leaders who rise to the top simply because they're comfortable talking a lot or being in control.”
Read. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. We idolize the talkers and the spotlight seekers, as if they are the role models “When you're feeling scared, genuine passion will lift you up and give you the excitement you need to propel you through your fear. They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.”
“Although we often hang back in group situations, evidence proves that introverts make strong leaders - often delivering better outcomes than extroverted leaders do. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for … One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. “Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.” They feel exceptionally strong emotions--sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear.
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“Don't let anyone tell you that introverts are anti-social - we are just differently social.”
They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. “We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.” She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.”
“The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be … It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Honor yourself.
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.”
They're often sensitive to sights, sounds, smells, pain, coffee.
Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.
They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family.
“Don't let anyone tell you that introverts are anti-social - we are just differently social.” ― Susan Cain, … They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family.
The Wall Street Journal's Philip Delves Broughton reviewed Quiet as "an earnest and enlightening 300-page inquiry into introversion and its uses", described examples of the research and investigations Cain undertook, and closed by stating "Ms. Cain's rich, intelligent book will probably have broad appeal."
The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.” They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive (just as Aron's husband had described her). “What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? They tend to notice subtleties that others miss -- another person's shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly.”
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.” “Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love.
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.
“We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. “There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
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See more ideas about The power of introverts, Quiet revolution, Quiet. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments--both physical and emotional--unusually deeply. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of “Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. “We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world.
Or at school you might have been prodded to come "out of your shell" -that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and some humans are just the same.”
“If you're an introvert, you also know that the bias against quiet can cause deep psychic pain.
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. “Introverts tend to assume leadership positions within groups when they really have something to contribute….they listen carefully to the ideas of the people they lead.
They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. But when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. Solve problems.
“For example, highly sensitive people tend to be keen observers who look before they leap. “Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.