“In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality...”

“A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is vi...”

“All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its nega...”

“Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people t...”

“In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the quest...”

“Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like th...”