Introverts

“There's something about like the intensity with which you do your work and you're like so passionate about your subject and your means of success is by going Super deep into your passion, and that's such an introvert thing.”

“If you're an extrovert, you probably find this, like, incredibly energizing, and so after two hours or so, You're looking for more because you're now hyper energized. And if you're an introvert, no matter how much you love all those people you were just talk…”

“For introverts in an extroverted culture, we spend so much time kind of unconsciously adapting to what we think our preferences are supposed to be that I hear from many people that they kind of have lost touch with how they actually prefer to spend their time.”

“For many introverts, we like to be able to process our thoughts before we articulate them. So you've now given Bob advance notice, and he has more time to pro, to do the processing before speaking.”

“I've seen different studies. Some say it's 30%. Some say it's 50%. It's always higher than you think. But it's basically one out of every two or three people.”

“And that's where a lot of people who think they may be introverted, I think, are, they're just actually limiting a lot. They're just kind of molding to their environment. And that's why they're so exhausted after this. They're just around the wrong people or t…”

“Your introverts never put them on the spot for collaboration. That's an insult to them, right? If you want them to collaborate or share their idea, send them an email ahead of time and say, hey, tomorrow we're doing a strategy session. I'm gonna be talking abo…”

“And for introverts in particular, but this is true for everyone, the thing that makes conversations hard is not the conversation itself. It's our anxiety about the conversation, right?”

“You find that by the way, the happiest couples, they tend to be one introvert and one extrovert.”

“And by the way, the only difference between extroverts and introverts in sales success is 0.03%. So let's just debunk that myth. There's no difference in whether you have the gift of the gab or whether you're silent.”

“How can you possibly be good at sales and be an introvert? And I think it's the curiosity, it's the relationships, it's spending time with people, but not necessarily, you know, big groups being the dancing bear”

“The best leaders are not the introverts or the extroverts on average. They're the ambiverts who fall somewhere in the middle of that spectrum and are comfortable flexing and talking and listening.”

“And I think for a creative person and for an introverted person, I think Manhattan is nirvana, because you have all this anonymity, so you're surrounded by all these creative people, and you're picking up on everything that's going on around you. You know, you…”

“I also find that for me, and I think for a lot of introverts the time that I spend with other people who I know really well, like family, is very relaxing compared to time spent with people I don't know well, because there's not that feeling of, like, you have…”

“Really the difference between introverts and extroverts at a neurobiological level is that we have different nervous systems and introverts have nervous systems that react more to stimulation. So for us, The sweet spot is when there's less stimulation around u…”

“You most definitely want a mix and there's research talking about this, and I think common sense would also say it, because you know, you can imagine it, you have a team, let's say, of all introverts, and it can just become kind of too quiet, and you're kind o…”