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

Indeed, for over three thousand
years, Western culture has linked the
qualities in the above constellations of
adjectives. As the anthropologist C. A.
Valentine once wrote:
Western cultural traditions include a
conception of individual variability
which appears to be old, widespread,
and persistent. In popular
form this is the familiar notion of
the man of action, practical man,
realist, or sociable person as opposed
to the thinker, dreamer, idealist,
or shy individual. The most
widely used labels associated with
this tradition are the type designations
extrovert and introvert.
Valentine’s concept of introversion includes
traits that contemporary psychology
would classify as openness to
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