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America Had Shifted From What Influential Cultural Historian Warren Susman Called A Culture Of Character To A Culture Of Personality, And Opened Up A Pandora's Box Of Personal Anxieties Of Which We Would Never Recover.

Shyness Is Inherently Uncomfortable; Introversion Is Not. The Traits Do Overlap, Though Psychologists Debate To What Degree.

Our Culture Rightly Admires Risk-takers, But We Need Our 'heed-takers' More Than Ever.

Introverts Are Offered Keys To Private Gardens Full Of Riches. To Possess Such A Key Is To Tumble Like Alice Down Her Rabbit Hole. She Didn't Choose To Go To Wonderland - But She Made Of It An Adventure That Was Fresh And Fantastic And Very Much Her Own.

Our Lives Are Shaped As Profoundly By Personality As By Gender Or Race. And The Single Most Important Aspect Of Personality ... Is Where We Fall On The Introvert-extrovert Spectrum.