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...growth means feeling a little bit new to yourself. An insulated life may protect you from unpleasant feelings, but it also limits you from having experiences and meeting people, both of which might help you and bring you delights you never imagined or thought possible.

~ Marti Olsen Laney (Author of The Introvert Advantage)

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Our temperament tends to be peace-loving and honest, so the tenets of many religions reflect our values.

~ Marti Olsen Laney (Author of The Introvert Advantage)

So true...

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From an article on yahoo website, it says that there are four types of introversion (Check it out at https://sg.news.yahoo.com/research-suggests-4-types-introverts-210822741.html). I know I am more of a mix of two types...

 





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The capacity to be alone is also an aspect of emotional maturity.

~ Anthony Storr (Quoted by Marti Olsen Laney, author of The Introvert Advantage)

 



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"Right-brained" and "left-brained" dominant introverts display different talents, behaviors, and limitations.

~ Marti Olsen Laney (Author of The Introvert Advantage)

 



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If you are more right-brained, you may tend to:

~ Interpret body language easily

~ Have a good sense of humor

~ Improvise

~ Deal with several problems at once

~ Use hands a lot in conversation

~ Notice patterns and think in pictures

 

~ Marti Olsen Laney (Author of The Introvert Advantage)

 

So true...

 



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Energy conservation is also why we are very interested in other people but sometimes prefer to observe others rather than join them.

~ Marti Olsen Laney (Author of The Introvert Advantage)

 

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Introverts aren't unsocial - they are just social in a different way. Introverts need fewer relationships, but they like more connection and intimacy. Since it takes a great deal of our energy to engage with other people, we are reluctant to need to spend too much energy on socializing. That's why we don't enjoy idle chitchat.

~ Marti Olsen Laney (Author of The Introvert Advantage)

 

YES! I'm definitely NOT antisocial, although that seems to be the general impression people have of me.

 



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Rather than bring self-centred, introverts are often really the opposite. Our ability to focus on our internal world and reflect on what we are feeling and experiencing allows us to understand the external world and other human beings better. What appears to be self-centredness is actually the very talent that provides the capacity to understand what it's like to put ourselves in someone else's shoes.

~ Marti Olsen Laney (Author of The Introvert Advantage)

 

So true!

 



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Counter to our stereotypes of introverts, they are not necessarily quiet or withdrawn, but their focus is inside their own heads. They need a quiet, reflective place where they can think things through and recharge themselves.

~ Marti Olsen Laney (Author of The Introvert Advantage)

 

So true...

 



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He (Carl Jung) thought introversion and extroversion were like two chemicals: When they are combined, each can be transformed by the other.
~ Marti Olsen Laney (Author of The Introvert Advantage)

 

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Where we fall on that (energy) continuum predicts how we derive our life energy. People on the more introverted end of the continuum focus inward to gain energy. People on the more extroverted end of the continuum focus outward to gain energy.

~ Marti Olsen Laney (Author of The Introvert Advantage)

 



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Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

~ Harlan F. Stones (Quoted by Marti Olsen Laney, Author of The Introvert Advantage)

 



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Make the most of introverts' strengths - these are the people who can help you think deeply, strategize, solve complex problems, and spot canaries in your coal mine.

~ Susan Cain (Author of Quiet)

 



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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

~ Anais Nin (Quoted by Susan Cain, Author of Quiet)

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...high-reactive children may be more likely to develop into artists and writers and scientists and thinkers because their aversion to novelty causes them to spend time inside the familiar - and intellectually fertile - environment of their own heads.

~ Susan Cain (Author of Quiet)



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