"Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road,
for then the journey is over and it is too late."
-- Robert R. Updegraff
for then the journey is over and it is too late."
-- Robert R. Updegraff
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Updated 01/18/17
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Extrovert and Introvert Enlightenment
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"Today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles." "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 have lost sight of who we really are……" “We make a grave mistake to embrace the Extrovert Ideal so unthinkingly…..” Susan Cain, "The Year of the Introvert" interview, February, 2013: http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/05/the-year-of-the-introvert-a-qa-with-susan-cain-on-the-release-of-her-paperback/ Former Wall Street lawyer turned writer Susan Cain's best seller has apparently sparked a 'QUIET Revolution', drawing on today's cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience for some surprising insights regarding the personality traits we call 'introvert' and 'extrovert'..... "Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that can‘t stop Talking" http://www.quietrev.com/quiet-the-book/ About Susan Cain: http://www.quietrev.com/author/susan-cain/ |
