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

remote corners of our nervous systems.
Today introversion and extroversion
are two of the most exhaustively researched
subjects in personality psychology,
arousing the curiosity of hundreds
of scientists.
These researchers have made exciting
discoveries aided by the latest technology,
but they’re part of a long and
storied tradition. Poets and philosophers
have been thinking about introverts
and extroverts since the dawn of recorded
time. Both personality types appear
in the Bible and in the writings of
Greek and Roman physicians, and some
evolutionary psychologists say that the
history of these types reaches back even
farther than that: the animal kingdom
also boasts “introverts” and
“extroverts,” as we’ll see, from fruit
flies to pumpkinseed fish to rhesus
monkeys. As with other complementary
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