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

Eysenck once observed, introversion
“concentrates the mind on the tasks in
hand, and prevents the dissipation of
energy on social and sexual matters unrelated
to work.” In other words, if
you’re in the backyard sitting under a
tree while everyone else is clinking
glasses on the patio, you’re more likely
to have an apple fall on your head.
(Newton was one of the world’s great
introverts. William Wordsworth described
him as “A mind forever / Voyaging
through strange seas of Thought
alone.”)
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If this is true—if solitude is an important
key to creativity—then we might all
want to develop a taste for it. We’d
want to teach our kids to work