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How odd to watch a mortal kindle <br> Then to dwindle day by day <br> Knowing their bright souls are tinder <br> And the wind will have its way

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Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

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Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

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Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

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The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

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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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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

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