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BEYOND TEMPERAMENT

The Role of Free Will (and the Secret of

Public Speaking for Introverts)

Enjoyment appears at the boundary

between boredom and anxiety, when the

challenges are just balanced with the person’s

capacity to act.

—MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Deep inside the bowels of the Athinoula

A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

at Massachusetts General Hospital,

the hallways are nondescript, dingy

even. I’m standing outside the locked

door of a windowless room with Dr.

Carl Schwartz, the director of the

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