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

like asking whether a blizzard is caused
by temperature or humidity. It’s the intricate
interaction between the two that
makes us who we are.
So perhaps I’ve been asking the
wrong question. Maybe the mystery of
what percent of personality is nature
and what percent nurture is less important
than the question of how your
inborn temperament interacts with the
environment and with your own free
will. To what degree is temperament
destiny?
On the one hand, according to the
theory of gene-environment interaction,
people who inherit certain traits tend to
seek out life experiences that reinforce
those characteristics. The most low-reactive
kids, for example, court danger
from the time they’re toddlers, so that
by the time they grow up they don’t bat
an eye at grown-up-sized risks. They
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