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the other 30 percent tend to report

needing a lot of “down time.”)

All of this complexity means that not

everything you read in Quiet will apply

to you, even if you consider yourself a

true-blue introvert. For one thing, we’ll

spend some time talking about shyness

and sensitivity, while you might have

neither of these traits. That’s OK. Take

what applies to you, and use the rest to

improve your relationships with others.

Having said all this, in Quiet we’ll try

not to get too hung up on definitions.

Strictly defining terms is vital for researchers

whose studies depend on pinpointing

exactly where introversion

stops and other traits, like shyness,

start. But in Quiet we’ll concern

ourselves more with the fruit of that research.

Today’s psychologists, joined by

neuroscientists with their brain-scanning

machines, have unearthed

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