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Susan Horowitz Cain (born 1968) is an American writer and lecturer, and author of the 2012 non-fiction book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, which argues that modern Western culture misunderstands and undervalues the traits and capabilities of introverted people. In 2015, Cain co-founded Quiet Revolution, a mission-based company with initiatives in the areas of children (parenting and education), lifestyle, and the workplace. Cain's 2016 follow-on book, Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, focused on introverted children and teens, the book also being directed to their educators and parents.

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INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. Indeed, about a quarter of Kagan’s high-reactive kids suffer from some degree of the condition known as “social anxiety disorder,” a chronic and disabling form of shyness.

Abuse, Anxiety Disorder, Kids, Likely, Parent, Shyness

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [. . . ], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

Beer, Extroversion, Football, Game, Glasses

Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.

Adventure, Fresh, Full, Garden, Keys, Riches

The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.

Hall, People, Presence, Real, Thinking, Two

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?

Jobs, Emotional, Skills, Intelligence, Reasonable

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.

Human, Job, Jobs, Learn, Lucky, Writing

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.

Cured, Introvert, Needs, Think, Thinking

Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity. . . In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

Activity, Adequacy, Anxious, Bored, Flow, State

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality. . . is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

Fall, Race, Personality, Single, Aspect

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

Giving, Incalculable, Power, Rewards, Way

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

Essential, Essentials, Gregariousness, Introvert, Love, Optional

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Back, Forth, Looks, Mistake, Productivity, Tasks

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Diners, People, Phrase, Phrases, Thinkers, Word

When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.

People, Worry, Messages, Across, Message, Viewing

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

Breeding, Mark, Reserve, Shyness, Unacceptable

We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts - which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts - in other words, one out of every two or three people you know.

Extroverts, Introverts, Mean, Sight, Two

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas can be shared quietly, they can be communicated in writing, they can be packaged into highly produced lectures, they can be advanced by allies. The trick for introverts is to honor their own styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

Highly, Ideas, Introverts, Mean, Writing

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.

America, Character, Cultural, Culture, Personal, Personality

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. ”)

Boys, Cards, Invited, Long, Parties, Party

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.

Found, Insecure, Memories, People, Sick

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