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

down to a constellation of twenty-seven
attributes. She named the people who
embodied these attributes “highly
sensitive.”
Some of these twenty-seven attributes
were familiar from Kagan and others’
work. For example, highly sensitive
people tend to be keen observers who
look before they leap. They arrange
their lives in ways that limit surprises.
They’re often sensitive to sights,
sounds, smells, pain, coffee. They have
difficulty when being observed (at
work, say, or performing at a music recital)
or judged for general worthiness
(dating, job interviews).
But there were also new insights. The
highly sensitive tend to be philosophical
or spiritual in their orientation,
rather than materialistic or hedonistic.
They dislike small talk. They often describe
themselves as creative or
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