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If you’re in the backyard sitting under a tree while everyone else is clinking glasses on the patio, you’re more likely to have an apple fall on your head.

Metaphor, Solitude, Backyard Moments, Unexpected Insights, Quiet Reflection

If you’re in the backyard sitting under a tree while

If you’re in the backyard sitting under a tree while

If you’re in the backyard sitting under a tree while

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“It makes sense, then, that Westerners value boldness and verbal skill, traits that promote individuality, while Asians prize quiet, humility, and sensitivity, which foster group cohesion. If you live in a collective, then things will go a lot more smoothly if you behave with restraint, even submission.”

Cultural Values, Individuality Vs Collectivism, Westerners, Asians, Social Behavior

“What psychologists call “the need for intimacy” is present in introverts and extroverts alike. In fact, people who value intimacy highly don’t tend to be, as the noted psychologist David Buss puts it, “the loud, outgoing, life-of-the-party extrovert.” They are more likely to be someone with a select group of close friends, who prefers “sincere and meaningful conversations over wild parties.””

Need For Intimacy, Introverts, Extroverts, Close Friendships, Meaningful Conversations

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

Shyness, Introversion, Discomfort, Psychological Traits, Debate

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

Wall Street Experience, Career Reflection, Foreign Environment, Legal Profession, Personal Journey

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

Extroversion, Personality, Appealing Traits, Social Interaction, Energetic Presence

“People who are aware of their sweet spots have the power to leave jobs that exhaust them and start new and satisfying businesses.”

Sweet Spots, Career Changes, Job Satisfaction, Self-awareness, Entrepreneurship

“The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet.”

Power Of Quiet, Inner Thoughts, Introverted Creativity, Emotional Depth, Personal Expression

“Introverts often have one or two deep interests that are not necessarily shared by their peers. Sometimes they’re made to feel freaky for the force of these passions, when in fact studies show that this sort of intensity is a prerequisite to talent development. Praise these kids for their interests, encourage them, and help them find like-minded friends, if not in the classroom, then outside it.”

Interests, Intensity, Passion, Talent Development, Social Encouragement

“In our house, reading was the primary group activity. On Saturday afternoons we curled up with our books in the den. It was the best of both worlds: you had the animal warmth of your family right next to you, but you also got to roam around the adventure-land inside your own head.”

Reading, Family Time, Group Activities, Imagination, Cozy Moments

“We failed to realize that what makes sense for the asynchronous, relatively anonymous interactions of the Internet might not work as well inside the face-to-face, politically charged, acoustically noisy confines of an open-plan office. Instead of distinguishing between online and in-person interaction, we used the lessons of one to inform our thinking about the other.”

Asynchronous Interactions, Online Versus Offline, Open-plan Offices, Communication Dynamics, Workplace Challenges

“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.”

Introversion, Child Development, Social Skills, Parenting Advice, Acceptance

“Western culture, by contrast, is organized around the individual. We see ourselves as self-contained units; our destiny is to express ourselves, to follow our bliss, to be free of undue restraint, to achieve the one thing that we, and we alone, were brought into this world to do.”

Western Culture, Individualism, Self-expression, Personal Destiny, Cultural Values

“Eleanor Roosevelt became the first First Lady to hold a press conference, address a national convention, write a newspaper column, and appear on talk radio.”

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady, Public Engagement, Breaking Barriers, Influential Women

“Maybe the mystery of what percent of personality is nature and what percent nurture is less important than the question of how your inborn temperament interacts with the environment and with your own free will. To what degree is temperament destiny?”

Nature Versus Nurture, Personality Development, Temperament, Environment, Free Will

“A well-known study out of UC Berkeley by organizational behavior professor Philip Tetlock found that television pundits – that is, people who earn their livings by holding forth confidently on the basis of limited information – make worse predictions about political and economic trends than they would by random chance. And the very worst prognosticators tend to be the most famous and the most confident – the very ones who would be considered natural leaders in an HBS classroom.”

Tetlock Study, Pundits, Prediction Accuracy, Confidence Versus Competence, Leadership Qualities

“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. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you’re told that you’re “in your head too much,” a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.”

Adult Choices, Guilt Feelings, Solitude In Public, Quiet Thinkers, Social Judgment

“Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones.”

Metaphor, Danger, Appearances, Social Commentary, Hidden Threats

“What’s so magical about solitude? In many fields, it’s only when you’re alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement.”

Solitude, Deliberate Practice, Creativity, Personal Mastery, Exceptional Achievement

“On August 15, 2008, Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable, the online guide to social media, weighed in. “Wouldn’t it be a great irony,” he asked, “if the leading proponents of the ‘it’s about people’ mantra weren’t so enamored with meeting large groups of people in real life? Perhaps social media affords us the control we lack in real life socializing: the screen as a barrier between us and the world.”

Pete Cashmore, Social Media, Culture Irony, Online Interactions, Barriers In Communication

“Introverts just don’t buzz as easily.”

Introversion, Energy Levels, Social Engagement, Personality Differences, Calm Demeanor