The Power of Misfits

Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appeali

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This is another significant area where introverts have an advantage, either at work, at school or at home – in fact, wherever they go: they are self-contained and individual. They work well independently and without supervision, and are less likely to be influenced by what other people think, or motivated by the usual values of society, like the de

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