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

Canada’s most eminent talk-show hosts.
“After a show, I’m in stall number
eight,” replied Gzowski, not missing a
beat.)
You might wonder how a strong introvert
like Professor Little manages to
speak in public so effectively. The answer,
he says, is simple, and it has to
do with a new field of psychology that
he created almost singlehandedly,
called Free Trait Theory. Little believes
that fixed traits and free traits coexist.
According to Free Trait Theory, we are
born and culturally endowed with certain
personality traits—introversion, for
example—but we can and do act out of
character in the service of “core personal
projects.”
In other words, introverts are capable
of acting like extroverts for the sake of
work they consider important, people
they love, or anything they value
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