Your Tendency To Be Inward-directed Or Outward-directed

I Look Back On My Years As A Wall Street Lawyer As Time Spent In A Foreign Country.

Any Time People Come Together In A Meeting, We're Not Necessarily Getting The Best Ideas; We're Just Getting The Ideas Of The Best Talkers.

Most People Who Have Grown Up Introverted In This Very Extroverted Culture Of Ours Have Had Painful Experiences Of Feeling Like They Are Out Of Step With What's Expected Of Them.

We're Told That To Be Great Is To Be Bold, To Be Happy Is To Be Sociable. We See Ourselves As A Nation Of Extroverts - Which Means That We've Lost Sight Of Who We Really Are. Depending On Which Study You Consult, One Third To One Half Of Americans Are Introverts - In Other Words, One Out Of Every Two Or Three People You Know.

Flow Is An Optimal State In Which You Feel Totally Engaged In An Activity...in A State Of Flow, You're Neither Bored Nor Anxious, And You Don't Question Your Own Adequacy. Hours Pass Without Your Noticing.