...if You Can Think Of Meetings You've

The Other Thing Aron Found About Sensitive People Is That Sometimes They're Highly Empathic. It's As If They Have Thinner Boundaries Separating Them From Other People's Emotions And From The Tragedies And Cruelties Of The World. They Tend To Have Unusually Strong Consciences. ... They're Acutely Aware Of The Consequences Of A Lapse In Their Own Behavior.

What If You Love Knowledge For Its Own Sake, Not Necessarily As A Blueprint To Action? What If You Wish There Were More, Not Fewer Reflective Types In The World?

(finland Is A Famously Introverted Nation. Finnish Joke: How Can You Tell If A Finn Likes You? He's Staring At Your Shoes Instead Of His Own.)

Now That You're An Adult, You Might Still Feel A Pang Of Guilt When You Decline A Dinner Invitation In Favor Of A Good Book. Or Maybe You Like To Eat Alone In Restaurants And Could Do Without The Pitying Looks From Fellow Diners. Or You're Told That You're "in Your Head Too Much", A Phrase That's Often Deployed Against The Quiet And Cerebral. Or Maybe There's Another Word For Such People: Thinkers.

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 In 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.