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

Some children, it turns out, feel a lot
more guilty about their (supposed)
transgression than others. They look
away, hug themselves, stammer out
confessions, hide their faces. And it’s
the kids we might call the most sensitive,
the most high-reactive, the ones
who are likely to be introverts who feel
the guiltiest. Being unusually sensitive
to all experience, both positive and
negative, they seem to feel both the
sorrow of the woman whose toy is
broken and the anxiety of having done
something bad. (In case you’re wondering,
the woman in the experiments
quickly returned to the room with the
toy “fixed” and reassurances that the
child had done nothing wrong.)
In our culture, guilt is a tainted word,
but it’s probably one of the building
blocks of conscience. The anxiety these
highly sensitive toddlers feel upon
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