“Once you understand introversion and extroversion as preferences for certain levels of stimulation, you can begin consciously trying to situate yourself in environments favourable to your personality-neither overstimulating nor understimulating, neither boring or anxiety-making. You can organize your life in terms of what personality psychologists call “optimal levels of arousal” and what I call “sweetContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Stimulation”
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Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: The impossibility of multitasking
“Indeed excessive stimulation seems to impede learning: a recent study found that people learn better after a quiet stroll through the woods than after a noisy walk down a city street. Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers toContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: The impossibility of multitasking”
Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Open plan offices
“Open plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated and insecure. Open plan workers are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and elevated stress levels and to get the flu; they argue more with their colleagues; they worryContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Open plan offices”
Susan Cain’s “Quiet”; Introverts as second-class citizens?
“Introversion-along with its cousins, sensitivity, seriousness and shyness-is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like a woman in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing style, butContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”; Introverts as second-class citizens?”
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