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

Some psychologists make their mark
by doing unusual research experiments.
Aron’s contribution is to think differently,
radically differently, about studies
that others have done. When she
was a girl, Aron was often told that she
was “too sensitive for her own good.”
She had two hardy elder siblings and
was the only child in her family who
liked to daydream, and play inside, and
whose feelings were easily hurt. As she
grew older and ventured outside her
family’s orbit, she continued to notice
things about herself that seemed different
from the norm. She could drive
alone for hours and never turn on the
radio. She had strong, sometimes disturbing
dreams at night. She was
“strangely intense,” and often beset by
powerful emotions, both positive and
negative. She had trouble finding the
sacred in the everyday; it seemed to be
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