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Generate New Ideas with Jayne Riew’s Writer’s Tool: “The Meditation Box”

By Susan Cain

How play can lead to creativity.

The “I See You” Experiment

By Susan Cain

The one small thing you can do to brighten someone else’s day.

Julien Smith’s “Breather” Supplies Quiet Rooms in Noisy Cities

By Susan Cain

Have you ever wanted a quiet space, just for a little while, when home is too far away?

“Introversion” | A comic by Luchie

By Susan Cain

This lovely comic by Luchie perfectly portrays how sometimes an introverts preferences can be misunderstood.

Three Steps to a Rich Inner Life—at Work

By Susan Cain

Did you know that performance is driven by people’s “inner lives”—how they think and feel about their work?

How Your Personality Matures with Time

By Susan Cain

Despite the variety of situations that we experience in a lifetime—all of them influencing who we are and how we grow—our core traits tend to remain constant.

When Does Socializing Make You Happier?

By Susan Cain

But if the spike of happiness introverts get following a nice exchange is real, so are the feelings of exhaustion and over-stimulation that come with too much socializing.

How Do Teachers Feel about Their Quiet Students?

By Susan Cain

Why do so many high-functioning people look back at high school as the worst time of their lives—and why do we accept this as normal?

The Fears That Make Us (Unnecessarily) Quake

By Susan Cain

To cope, I told myself that I wouldn’t remember this day, this trial, this test, by the time I was thirty—an age that seemed impossibly far off—so why worry about it now?

Public Speaking for Introverts: Tip #1 (Courtesy of Malcolm Gladwell)

By Susan Cain

Speaking has nothing to do with extroversion. It’s a performance, and many performers are hugely introverted.