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You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.

Emotional Sensitivity, Conscience, Response To Violence, Empathy, Moral Awareness

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You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by

You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by

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“Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.”

Introverts, Self-acceptance, Authenticity, Passing As Extroverts, Personal Identity

“Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments – both physical and emotional – unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss – another person’s shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly.”

Highly Sensitive, Information Processing, Emotional Subtleties, Environmental Awareness, Noticing Details

“This book is about the melancholic direction, which I call the “bittersweet”: a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. The bittersweet is also about the recognition that light and dark, birth and death – bitter and sweet – are forever paired. “Days of honey, days of onion,” as an Arabic proverb puts it.”

Bittersweet, Melancholy, Awareness Of Time, Beauty In Sorrow, Light And Dark

“When people are skilled at adopting free traits, it can be hard to believe that they’re acting out of character. Professor Little’s students are usually incredulous when he claims to be an introvert. But Little is far from unique; many people, especially those in leadership roles, engage in a certain level of pretend-extroversion.”

Free Traits, Adaptability, Professor Little, Pretend-extroversion, Leadership Dynamics

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

Personality Class System, Introversion Devaluation, Talent, Energy, Happiness

“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.”

Warren Susman, Culture Shift, Character Versus Personality, Personal Anxieties, Historical Perspective

“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas.”

Authority, Communication Skills, Leadership, Idea Generation, Critical Thinking

“It can be hard for extroverts to understand how badly introverts need to recharge at the end of a busy day. We all empathize with a sleep-deprived mate who comes home from work too tired to talk, but it’s harder to grasp that social overstimulation can be just as exhausting.”

Extroverts, Introverts, Recharging Time, Social Overstimulation, Empathy Challenge

“Soft power is not limited to moral exemplars like Mahatma Gandhi. Consider, for example, the much-ballyhooed excellence of Asians in fields like math and science. Professor Ni defines soft power as “quiet persistence,” and this trait lies at the heart of academic excellence as surely as it does in Gandhi’s political triumphs. Quiet persistence requires sustained attention – in effect restraining one’s reactions to external stimuli.”

Soft Power, Quiet Persistence, Academic Excellence, Cultural Traits, Sustained Attention

“To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.”

Cultural Admiration, Extroversion, Historical Context, Early 20th Century, Business Influence

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

Shyness, Reserve, Social Norms, Breeding, Cultural Standards

“It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there.”

Parenting, Understanding Children, Introversion Vs Extroversion, Emotional Depth, Child Behavior

“Those who worked with these leaders tended to describe them with the following words: quiet, humble, modest, reserved, shy, gracious, mild-mannered, self-effacing, understated. The lesson, says Collins, is clear. We don’t need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.”

Effective Leadership, Personality Traits, Humble Leaders, Corporate Transformation, Self-effacing Qualities

“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

“For example, highly sensitive people tend to be keen observers who look before they leap. They arrange their lives in ways that limit surprises. They’re often sensitive to sights, sounds, smells, pain, coffee.”

Highly Sensitive People, Keen Observers, Environmental Sensitivity, Cautious Living, Personal Adjustments

“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.”

Slow And Steady, Personal Pace, Societal Pressure, Self-acceptance, Individual Preferences

“Those who live the most fully realized lives – giving back to their families, societies, and ultimately themselves – tend to find meaning in their obstacles.”

Meaning, Obstacles, Fulfillment, Personal Growth, Family Support

“Studies show that one third to one half of us are introverts. This means that you have more introverted kids in your class than you think. Even at a young age, some introverts become adept at acting like extroverts, making it tough to spot them. Balance teaching methods to serve all the kids in your class. Extroverts tend to like movement, stimulation, collaborative work. Introverts prefer lectures, downtime, and independent projects. Mix it up fairly.”

Introverts In Class, Teaching Methods, Student Diversity, Balancing Needs, Educational Strategies

“These findings have enormous implications. They tell us that our impulse to respond to other beings’ sadness sits in the same location as our need to breathe, digest food, reproduce, and protect our babies; in the same place as our desire to be rewarded and to enjoy life’s pleasures. They tell us, as Keltner explained to me, that “caring is right at the heart of human existence. Sadness is about caring. And the mother of sadness is compassion.”

Caring, Emotions, Human Existence, Compassion, Psychological Findings

“If you’re a teacher, enjoy your gregarious and participatory students. But don’t forget to cultivate the shy, the gentle, the autonomous, the ones with single-minded enthusiasms for chemistry sets or parrot taxonomy or nineteenth-century art. They are the artists, engineers, and thinkers of tomorrow.”

Teaching Strategies, Student Diversity, Introverted Learners, Personal Interests, Future Contributions