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

personality traits are genetically transmitted,”
writes the psychologist Kenneth
Olson, “each succeeding wave of
emigrants to a new continent would
give rise over time to a population of
more engaged individuals than reside
in the emigrants’ continent of origin.”
We can also trace our admiration of
extroverts to the Greeks, for whom
oratory was an exalted skill, and to the
Romans, for whom the worst possible
punishment was banishment from the
city, with its teeming social life. Similarly,
we revere our founding fathers
precisely because they were loudmouths
on the subject of freedom: Give
me liberty or give me death! Even the
Christianity of early American religious
revivals, dating back to the First Great
Awakening of the eighteenth century,
depended on the showmanship of ministers
who were considered successful if
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