Susan Cain, graduated from Princeton university and harvard law school, used to be a good lawyer, said she had chose to be a lawyer, just to prove that introverts can also do this good. But she later realised that if you are a introverted person, does not need to try to make yourself appear outgoing, introverted personality can do great things.
Her about introverted book named "the quiet: introverts in a world of gush of power. The title some history: in 1955, a black seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give his seat to a white on the bus. She died in 2005, an obituary all say she is a gentle, kind, diminutive speaker, says she is timid and shy, but a lion's courage, humility and firmly. How can a person is shy and brave? Parks, he was also aware of this paradox, her autobiography named "quiet strength".
Inbound and outgoing has a long history. Throughout history, poets and philosophers have been thinking introversion and extroversion. Both personality types in the bible and the ancient Greek and Roman medical books. Some evolutionary psychologists say, these two concepts is much earlier than this: the history of the animal kingdom also share to and outgoing. Cain said: "with other, complement each other in pairs of category such as male and female, east and west, liberal and conservative, no human nature both personality types will become fuzzy and even become extinct. Such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, jr. Complementary: a fury speaker in a segregated refused to give up her seat on a bus, its effect is better than a woman prefers to remain silent shy to do that. If parks stood up and said she had a dream, she wouldn't let the person feel shocked. But with the help of Dr. King's, she doesn't need to do that."
Kane thought, now society is too advocate outgoing personality, be it education or company layout is extrovert oriented, this caused a lot of pressure to introverts, is not conducive to their potential. Now people often say, want to accomplish something must be bold, want happiness must fit in. But one third to half of americans introverted (given the United States is the most outgoing country, other countries introverts ratio should be higher). If you are not an introverted person, who is your child, must be introverted, spouse, or friends. Many people were forced to pretend to be outgoing. In the playground, the high school locker room, the company has a lot of corridors has not been recognized yet "coming out" introverts.
In 1921, psychologist Carl jung published book psychological type, introversion and extroversion became popular. Jung said that introverts are inner thoughts and feelings of the world, extroverts will attract by external people and activities. Introverts focus on their understanding of the meaning of the surroundings, extravert plunged into the event itself. Introverts through solitude charging, extroverts when insufficient social need to recharge. Now some scholars think that jung's ideas have been out of date, some people think that only jung was right. But psychologists generally agreed: introverts and extroverts need different levels of external stimuli. Introverts feel less stimulus at the right moment, such as when they are with friends when wine, doing crossword puzzles, or reading. Extroverts prefer meeting strangers, from the steep hill skiing down, sound more blaring. Introverts prefer studying quietly in the holiday rather than on the yacht party, this is because, for them, compared with one hundred books and one hundred grain of sand, one hundred individuals too exciting.
Extroverts prefer action rather than thinking, love adventure rather than caution. When he was working in a team to do even better, he likes to make friends. Introverted and its Cousins now sensitive, serious and shy is second class character. But some great ideas, art, and inventions, from the theory of evolution to van gogh's "sunflower" and a personal computer, from the hand of the introvert. Not introverted people, there would be no gravity in the world theory, the theory of relativity, there would be no Yeats's "second coming", Chopin's nocturne, Proust's recall a time-lapse, there won't be Peter pan, Charlie brown, Orwell's "1984" and "animal farm", "schindler's list", "E.T.", Google, "harry potter" series. Ignoring the temperament of the stimulus rather than accept has produced many intellectual and artistic achievement. Both mass energy equation and paradise lost, are not party animals with ease. Even in a less obvious introversive career such as financial, political, and social movement, some of the greatest breakthroughs are introverts. Al gore, warren buffett, Gandhi is using their inward rather than overcome their introverted make their achievements.
Kane, points out that introversion is not equal to be shy. Introverted people are more like quiet, I prefer less stimulus environment. Shy is afraid of other people's criticism or shame. Introversion, extroversion, there are four kinds of permutation and combination shy, don't be shy: quiet extravert, anxious extravert, a quiet introvert and anxious introverts. So people are shy extroverts, such as Barbara streisand, want to be with a lot of people, but worry that all judges, and don't be shy introvert, such as Bill Gates, like to be alone but I don't mind the opinions of others. In the waste land says he "can show fear in a handful of dust" of T.S. Eliot is shy and introverted.
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