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

To solve Esther’s problem, let’s focus
on another difference between introverts
and extroverts: their preference
for stimulation.
For several decades, beginning in the
late 1960s, an influential research psychologist
named Hans Eysenck hypothesized
that human beings seek “just
right” levels of stimulation—not too
much and not too little. Stimulation is
the amount of input we have coming in
from the outside world. It can take any
number of forms, from noise to social
life to flashing lights. Eysenck believed
that extroverts prefer more stimulation
than introverts do, and that this explained
many of their differences: introverts
enjoy shutting the doors to their
offices and plunging into their work,
because for them this sort of quiet intellectual
activity is optimally stimulating,
while extroverts function best when
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