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

“climb a few fences, become desensitized,
and climb up on the roof,” the late
psychologist David Lykken once explained
in an Atlantic article. “They’ll
have all sorts of experiences that other
kids won’t. Chuck Yeager (the first pilot
to break the sound barrier) could step
down from the belly of the bomber into
the rocketship and push the button not
because he was born with that difference
between him and me, but because
for the previous thirty years his temperament
impelled him to work his way
up from climbing trees through increasing
degrees of danger and excitement.”
Conversely, high-reactive children
may be more likely to develop into
artists and writers and scientists and
thinkers because their aversion to novelty
causes them to spend time inside
the familiar—and intellectually fertile—environment
of their own heads.
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