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

But how many of us are really capable
of acting out of character to this degree
(putting aside, for the moment, the
question of whether we want to)? Professor
Little happens to be a great performer,
and so are many CEOs. What
about the rest of us?
Some years ago, a research psychologist
named Richard Lippa set out to answer
this question. He called a group of
introverts to his lab and asked them to
act like extroverts while pretending to
teach a math class. Then he and his
team, video cameras in hand, measured
the length of their strides, the amount
of eye contact they made with their
“students,” the percentage of time they
spent talking, the pace and volume of
their speech, and the total length of
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