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

imagining things, recalling events from
their past, and making plans for the future.
The extroverts are more likely to
focus on what’s happening around
them. It’s as if extroverts are seeing
“what is” while their introverted peers
are asking “what if.”
Introverts’ and extroverts’ contrasting
problem-solving styles have been observed
in many different contexts. In
one experiment, psychologists gave
fifty people a difficult jigsaw puzzle to
solve, and found that the extroverts
were more likely than the introverts to
quit midway. In another, Professor
Richard Howard gave introverts and extroverts
a complicated series of printed
mazes, and found not only that the introverts
tended to solve more mazes
correctly, but also that they spent a
much greater percentage of their allotted
time inspecting the maze before
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