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

interior monologue was The route to
success is to be the sort of person I am
not. This is not self-monitoring; it is
self-negation. Where Jillian acts out of
character for the sake of worthy tasks
that temporarily require a different orientation,
Alison believes that there is
something fundamentally wrong with
who she is.
It’s not always so easy, it turns out,
to identify your core personal projects.
And it can be especially tough for introverts,
who have spent so much of their
lives conforming to extroverted norms
that by the time they choose a career,
or a calling, it feels perfectly normal to
ignore their own preferences. They may
be uncomfortable in law school or nursing
school or in the marketing department,
but no more so than they were
back in middle school or summer camp.
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