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

a high wire. By now I’ve had so many
thousands of social experiences that
I’ve learned that the high wire is a figment
of my imagination, or that I won’t
die if I fall. I reassure myself so instantaneously
that I’m barely aware I’m doing
it. But the reassurance process is
still happening—and occasionally it
doesn’t work. The word that Kagan first
used to describe high-reactive people
was inhibited, and that’s exactly how I
still feel at some dinner parties.
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This ability to stretch ourselves—within
limits—applies to extroverts, too. One
of my clients, Alison, is a business consultant,
mother, and wife with the kind
of extroverted personality—friendly,
forthright, perpetually on the go—that