quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

Assessment and Research at the
University of California, Berkeley, conducted
a series of studies on the nature
of creativity. The researchers sought to
identify the most spectacularly creative
people and then figure out what made
them different from everybody else.
They assembled a list of architects,
mathematicians, scientists, engineers,
and writers who had made major contributions
to their fields, and invited
them to Berkeley for a weekend of personality
tests, problem-solving experiments,
and probing questions.
Then the researchers did something
similar with members of the same professions
whose contributions were decidedly
less groundbreaking.
One of the most interesting findings,
echoed by later studies, was that the
more creative people tended to be socially
poised introverts. They were
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