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    I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

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    Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're more apt than the average person to feel pleasantly overwhelmed by Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" or a well-turned phrase or an act of extraordinary kindness. You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.

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    Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

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    Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

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    I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly).

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    All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

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    The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.

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    I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

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