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

the “cheerful,” “enthusiastic,” and “sociable.”
“The contrast is striking,”
writes Michael Harris Bond, a cross-cultural
psychologist who focuses on China.
“The Americans emphasize sociability
and prize those attributes that
make for easy, cheerful association. The
Chinese emphasize deeper attributes,
focusing on moral virtues and
achievement.”
Another study asked Asian-Americans
and European-Americans to think out
loud while solving reasoning problems,
and found that the Asians did much
better when they were allowed to be
quiet, compared to the Caucasians, who
performed well when vocalizing their
problem-solving.
These results would not surprise anyone
familiar with traditional Asian attitudes
to the spoken word: talk is for
communicating need-to-know
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