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partner, and to pursue autonomous work

like art, research, math, and engineering.

Extroversion and introversion even predict

the psychological challenges you might

face: depression and anxiety for introverts

(think Woody Allen); hostility, narcissism,

and overconfidence for extroverts (think

Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick, drunk with

rage against a white whale).

In addition, there are studies showing

that the personality of a seventy-year-old

can be predicted with remarkable accuracy

from early adulthood on. In other words,

despite the remarkable variety of situations

that we experience in a lifetime, our core

traits remain constant. It’s not that our personalities

don’t evolve; Kagan’s research on

the malleability of high-reactive people has

singlehandedly disproved this notion. But

we tend to stick to predictable patterns. If

you were the tenth most introverted person

in your high school class, your behavior

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