Solve Problems, Make Art, Think Deeply.

Your Tendency To Be Inward-directed Or Outward-directed Is Huge; It Governs Every Part Of The Way You Live And Work And Love.

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.

Introversion - Along With Its Cousins Sensitivity, Seriousness, And Shyness - Is Now A Second-class Personality Trait, Somewhere Between A Disappointment And A Pathology.

Solitude Matters. And For Some People It's The Air They Breathe.

The Same Person Who Would Never Raise His Hand In A Lecture Hall Of Two Hundred People Might Blog To Two Thousand, Or Two Million, Without Thinking Twice. The Same Person Who Finds It Difficult To Introduce Himself To Strangers Might Establish A Presence Online And Then Extend These Relationships Into The Real World.