Introverts run the world - CNN

[Mariano Rajoy]

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/18/opinion/cain-introverts-power/index.html

Editor's note: Susan Cain is the author of "Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking." A writer who formerly practiced corporate law and worked as a negotiations consultant, Cain spoke at the TED2012 conference in Long Beach, California. TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading," which it makes available through talks posted on itswebsite. Follow @susancain on Twitter.(CNN) -- The theory of evolution. The theory of relativity. The Cat in the Hat. All were brought to you by introverts.Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements -- from Steve Wozniak's invention of the Apple computer to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. And these introverts did what they did not in spite of their temperaments -- but because of them.As the science journalist Winifred Gallagher writes: "The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal."Watch an interview with Susan Cain

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[Beautiful sky]

I am reading that book now; it's not interesting.

[Hot Scalding Gayser]

I am an introverted artist. <3

[FDG]

This isn't really about introversion in the psychological sense, rather about "smart" people.

[Korpsy Knievel]

It's about someone finding success despite being born to a well-to-do family and spamming motherfuckers to buy her book.

[WVBRY]

"Introverts" have to feel better about themselves somehow.

[munenori2]

But if introverts run the world, who runs the introverts?

[717495]

But if introverts run the world, who runs the introverts?

That's the next book.

[Saberstorm]

I better hurry up and get to it then... I do not rule this world !

[Inguz]

Richard Dawkins (IEE) and Albert Einstein (ILE) are both Ne base in socionics.

[Eldanen]

Dawkins an IEE? Preposterous. ILE for both.

[Narc]

I'm kind of sick of hearing about this book. I also dislike seeing a bunch of ENTx types being considered introverts because they happen to be quiet and smart (but ignoring the fact that they're externally focused).