Susan Cain

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.

Susan Cain

It’s also vital to recognize that many people – especially introverts like Steve Wozniak – need extra quiet and privacy in order to do their best work.

Susan Cain

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

Susan Cain

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

Susan Cain

Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time. What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Susan Cain

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn’t soothe anger; it fuels it.

Susan Cain

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Susan Cain

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I’m not one of them.

Susan Cain

Some of the world’s most talented people are introverts.

Susan Cain

Some of the world’s most talented people are introverts. Without them we wouldn’t have the Apple computer, the theory of relativity or Van Gogh’s sunflowers.

Susan Cain