Susan Cain

Susan Cain

Author, Speaker

Susan Cain is an author and speaker known for her influential work on introversion, particularly through her bestselling book, 'Quiet'.

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Born
September 2, 1972
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132
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#358

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"I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. 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. They said she was "timid and shy" but had "the courage of a lion." They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude."

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

Football Beer Glasses
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"Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless."

Challenges Trying Energy
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"But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think."

Powerful Thinking Rejection
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"There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet."

People Overcoming Tibet
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"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."

Character America Personality
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"you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind...That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough."

Writing Mean Night
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"In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts were 16 percent higher than the profits of those led by introverts—but only when the employees were passive types who tended to do their job without exercising initiative. Introverted leaders had the exact opposite results. When they worked with employees who actively tried to improve work procedures, their stores outperformed those led by extroverts by more than 14 percent."

Jobs Exercise Opposites
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"Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love."

And Love Inward Way
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"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.”)"

Party Boys Long
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"Every American was to become a performing self."

Self Performing
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"We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it."

Power Solitude Forgotten
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"The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a constant tension for many introverts that they’re not living that out. And in a religious world, there’s more at stake when you feel that tension. It doesn’t feel like ‘I’m not doing as well as I’d like.’ It feels like ‘God isn’t pleased with me.’"

Religious People Community
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"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."

Bored Adequacy Flow
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"I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style."

Personality Style
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"As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need."

Children Giving Parent
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"It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else."

People Laughing Gone
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