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“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 appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

We like to think that we value individuality, but all too often we admire one type of individual – the kind who is comfortable “putting himself out there”.

But we make a grave mistake to embrace the Extrovert Ideal so unthinkingly.  Some of our greatest ideas, art, and inventions – from the theory of evolution to Van Gogh’s sunflowers to the personal computer – came from quiet and cerebral people who knew how to tune in to their inner worlds and the treasures to be found there.”

~Susan Cain as quoted on Style Bubble

(Source: stylebubble.typepad.com)

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