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Cain: Manhattan Is Ideal for Introverts Due to Anonymity and Creative Energy
“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…”
Cain: Emotional Distress Stems From Believing Hardship Should Not Happen
“I think a lot of times when we get upset about something, we don't even realize it, but it's coming from a feeling that it's not supposed to be this way, like something went horribly wrong. And so in addition to the thing itself, you're kind of feeling like it…”
Cain: Outward Social Skills Do Not Change an Introvert's Underlying Nature
“It's more that I've over time gained the skills to be able to do these things. And I want to do them cause I really care about what I'm saying. So I'm doing something that's vaguely uncomfortable in the service of something I care about, but my underlying natu…”
Cain: Strategically Act Out of Character for Core Personal Projects
“And the idea is that all of us have core personal projects by which he means like, you know, the people we really love or the work we really care about doing. And he says in the service of these core personal projects, we can, and we should act out of characte…”
Cain: Introverts Find Time With Close Family Far Less Draining Than Strangers
“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…”
Cain: Framing Domestic Conflicts as Temperament Differences Eases Resolution
“It took us a while to realize that that was an introversion, extroversion thing, and somehow once you frame it as that, it's actually a lot easier to work it out. I think because it gives it gives legitimacy to the other person's point of view instead of feeli…”
Cain: Anonymity Makes Cafe Work Fundamentally Different Than Open Offices
“I believe it's different working in a cafe as an anonymous person Versus working in an office, an open office space with all your colleagues and all the politics that are, you know, flowing all around you everywhere you look. Completely different experience.”
Susan Cain: Ideal Office Design Lets Employees Move Between Private and Open Spaces
“First of all, I think it's important to design workplaces now, nowadays, where people have a choice of how they'd like to work. So a place where people can move freely back and forth between private spaces and open communal spaces, I think is the ideal.”
Cain: Teams Require Introverts and Extroverts to Balance Action and Analysis
“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…”
Cain: Envy Points Directly Toward What You Actually Want in Life
“It's the things you envy that, that point you in the direction of what do you really want for yourself?”
Cain: Teams Eagerly Discuss Personal Work Preferences Under Psychological Safety
“The underlying key to what I'm saying is creating the space where it's okay to talk about this stuff. And once I have found that once that dam has broken and people start to feel it's okay, they can't shut up about it because it's endlessly fascinating and end…”