Solitude Is One Of Our Great Superpowers...

It's Not That There Is No Small Talk...it's That It Comes Not At The Beginning Of Conversations But At The End...sensitive People...'enjoy Small Talk Only After They've Gone Deep' Says Strickland. 'when Sensitive People Are In Environments That Nurture Their Authenticity, They Laugh And Chitchat Just As Much As Anyone Else.

Many Introverts Are Also "highly Sensitive," Which Sounds Poetic, But Is Actually A Technical Term In Psychology. If You Are A Sensitive Sort, Then You're More Apt Than The Average Person To Feel Pleasantly Overwhelmed By Beethoven's "moonlight Sonata" Or A Well-turned Phrase Or An Act Of Extraordinary Kindness. You May Be Quicker Than Others To Feel Sickened By Violence And Ugliness, And You Likely Have A Very Strong Conscience.

Spend Your Free Time The Way You Like, Not The Way You Think You're Supposed To. Stay Home On New Year's Eve If That's What Makes You Happy. Skip The Committee Meeting. Cross The Street To Avoid Making Aimless Chitchat With Random Acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write A Story. Make A Deal With Yourself That You'll Attend A Set Number Of Social Events In Exchange For Not Feeling Guilty When You Beg Off.

Solitude Is Out Of Fashion. Our Companies, Our Schools And Our Culture Are In Thrall To An Idea I Call The New Groupthink, Which Holds That Creativity And Achievement Come From An Oddly Gregarious Place.

All Personality Traits Have Their Good Side And Their Bad Side. But For A Long Time, We've Seen Introversion Only Through Its Negative Side And Extroversion Mostly Through Its Positive Side.