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Outrageously Successful Introverts

by Chris
September 3rd, 2013

Laura Schocker of The Huffington Post has given us a list of outrageously successful introverts, some of which may surprise you.

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 Emma Watson  “It’s interesting,  because people say things to me like, ‘It’s really cool that you don’t go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs,’ and I’m just like, I mean, I appreciate that, but I’m kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature, it’s not like a conscious choice that I’m making necessarily. It’s genuinely who I am.”

eleanor3 Eleanor Roosevelt  “Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

 

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 Christina Aguilera   “Because, besides being petite, she is, it seems, shy. She tells me that she has always been ‘intense and introverted’ and that, as a result, she’s felt like an outsider her entire life.”   (Gaby Wood)

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 Abraham Lincoln  “In the nation’s earlier years it was easier for introverts to earn respect,” Susan Cain said. “America once embodied what the cultural historian Warren Susman called a ‘Culture of Character,’ which valued inner strength, integrity, and the good deeds you performed when no one was looking. You could cut an impressive figure by being quiet, reserved, and dignified.”

xx2a David Letterman  used to marvel at “the aerodynamic properties of toast.”

 

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 J.K. Rowling   “The Harry Potter author has described herself as an introvert, particularly when she refers to her childhood.” (Susan Cain)

g2 Bill Gates   “Bill Gates is quiet and bookish, but apparently unfazed by others’ opinions of him: he’s an introvert, but not shy.”  (Susan Cain)

 

c2Courteney Cox  “I’m a homebody. I like to have people over, but I’m a little socially not — I don’t love it. David — he doesn’t drink anymore, he’s completely sober — but he likes to go out and dance. He really is a very gregarious guy. He’s very outgoing. I’m much more of an introvert.”

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 Albert Einstein  “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”

 

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 Mahatma Gandhi  “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

 

 

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 Laura Bush  From USA Today: “For an admitted introvert, Laura Bush remarkably has evolved into a very effective speaker.”

 

rosa2 Rosa Parks  “When she died in 2005 at the age of 92, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was ‘timid and shy‘ but had ‘the courage of a lion.’ They were full of phrases like ‘radical humility’ and ‘quiet fortitude.‘”

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 Audrey Hepburn   “I’m an introvert … I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”

 

wb2 Warren Buffett  “Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.”

 

roy2 Roy Rogers  “I’m an introvert at heart. And show business — even though I’ve loved it so much — has always been hard for me.”

 

cb2 Candice Bergen  “I’m an introvert and my husband is like the mayor.” 

 

gs2 George Stephanopoulos  “Despite my job chatting people up, I’m an introvert.”

 

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Some Happenings for HSPs

by marki
August 31st, 2008

I know it’s been a really long time since I last posted.

But if you’re an introvert who has also identified yourself as an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) — I’d like to let you know about some things going on this fall.

A gathering of HSPs is scheduled in Phoenicia, NY in early October. 70% of HSPs are introverts. If you’ve ever wanted to meet others like yourself in real life, this is a wonderful chance to do that.

You can find more info here.

And you can sign up here.

For HSPs in the Pacific Northwest, there’s also a new network site for HSPs who live in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, and British Columbia. You can find that here.

And last but not least, if you’re not sure you fit the description of an HSP, but you’d like to find out, you can take a self test here.

I probably won’t make it to the NY gathering (although I know some great people who will). But I’m part of the Pacific Northwest group, and it would be fun to see some of you there.

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Sound & Solitude

by Chris
February 9th, 2007

sound.JPGI’m thinking of how sound affects introverts. Many introverts complain of noise – often in the workplace, sometimes at home. The other side of that coin is that extraverts seem to enjoy noise. You know how it is when you’re enjoying the silence and some well-meaning extravert turns on the radio.

At a meditation center, after twenty minutes of blissful meditative silence, there are always a few slightly hysterical extraverts trying to start a conversation before we even leave the room. Conversational gambits are not welcome as I try to hang on to the silence and carry it outside.

Music can be blasted at dictators to encourage their surrender and it can be sung to babies to help them sleep. The boundaries of these sounds are measured in Hz and decibels, but measuring a thing doesn’t explain it. Extraverts run to sound as if to an islet of sunlit joy, while introverts run from it as if from chaotic anarchy.

I think – and this is only a theory – that sound is an irresistible magnet to the “outer” world, which is where extraverts replenish energy and introverts spend it. Everyone needs to decide when and where to spend their energy. It might be that, for an introvert, only solitude can provide the power of choice respecting sound.

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Article for Introverts

by Chris
December 24th, 2006

I can’t let the holiday get away from me before sharing with you an article, written by Dr. Elaine Aron (author of The Highly Sensitive Person): What to Do About Extravert Envy. Introvert herself, she has some interesting things to say about it.

Enjoy, and have a warm and wonderful holiday.

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