453 Quotes by Susan Cain

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

Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme, McHugh is telling us. If you don’t love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It’s not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly. Is it any wonder that introverts like Pastor McHugh start to question their own hearts?

When you spend too much time battling your ownnature, the opposite happens: you deplete yourself. I’ve met toomany people living lives that didn’t suit them — introverts withfrenetic social schedules and extroverts with jobs that requiredthem to sit in front of their computers for hours at a stretch.We all have to do things that don’t come naturally... some of the time. But it shouldn’t be all the time. It shouldn’t even be most of the time.

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.

From an evolutionary perspective, introversion must have survived as a personality trait for a reason — so what might the reason be?

Introversion is also very different from Asperger's syndrome, the autism spectrum disorder that involves difficulties with social interactions such as reading facial expressions and body language.... unlike people with Asperger's, introverts often have strong social skills. Compared with the one third to one half of Americans who are introverts, only one in five thousand people has Asperger's.

Some animals carry their shelter wherever they go. Some humans are just the same.

Some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".