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Susan Cain

1 year

One week to go until #Bittersweet , an @OprahsBookClub selection, is available in paperback! Don’t forget to preorder and complete this form () before 6/19 to get your signed bookplate!

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2 years

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need". ~Cicero Have a magical weekend! Art and quotation: via @dennismt #Kindred #Bittersweet #Quiet

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7 years

Happy World Introvert Day!! I will be celebrating by getting into a flow state (hopefully) outlining my next book. (To mark the occasion, here is a photo of me in flow when I was outlining Quiet. :)) How will you spend the day?

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4 years

7 simple life-improving things: 1. Breathe deeply, often. 2. Drink a lot of water. 3. Eat real food. 4. Always get a good night’s sleep. 5. Be kind to yourself. 6. Realize that you're not your thoughts. 7. When you feel sad or anxious, take action (try taking a walk).

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9 years

The Quiet Revolution WEBSITE HAS LAUNCHED!! Please visit and let me know what you think: http://t.co/03u8UvE2u0 Many, many versions to come!

Home - Susan Cain

Hi, I’m Susan! #1 NYT bestselling author. Unlikely award-winning speaker. Host of the Quiet Life Community and Audible series.Welcome to the world of QUIET and BITTERSWEET QUIET LIFE The Quiet Life...

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5 years

Yesterday I was having computer issues that caused much sighing and cursing, and my ten year old slipped me this note.

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6 years

“The cruel always believe the kind are weak. But human decency and goodness can also move human affairs.” —David Frum

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4 years

Advice we don't hear enough: just because you're good at something doesn't mean it's what you should spend your time doing. Sometimes competence, and the rewards/praise it brings, can send you in the wrong direction, or trap you in the wrong place.

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5 years

"Sit in a room and read—and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time." -Joseph Campbell

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7 years

How introverts lead. #DayOneInsights #entrepreneurship

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1 year

Lately, people keep using the word "quiet" to mean "passive-aggressive" or "something bad that sneaks up on you" - as in, "quiet quitting" or "the quiet catastrophe of loneliness." HERE IS ITS TRUE MEANING. I hope you find some quiet this weekend -- and kindred spirits who know

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6 years

“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.” ―Albert Einstein (via @sbkaufman )

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3 years

Now that I’m here, I can't see why middle age gets such a bad rap. I think it’s the best of all possible times. You still have your health and vibrancy (hopefully) but the shadows are lengthening enough that you stop to notice the beauty in everything. Photo: Jeremy Barlow

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3 years

So thrilled to share w you my brand new TED talk on “The hidden power of sad songs and rainy days”: I truly hope that you find it of value, esp during these troubling times. & if you have any thoughts or questions about the talk, I’d love to know them!

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7 years

“Elon [Musk] has always been an introvert thinker….So where a lot of people would go to a great party & talk about all sorts of things like rugby or sport, you'd find Elon had found the person's library & was going through their books.” — Errol Musk (Elon’s father) Just saying.

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7 years

For this New Years I wish for you to figure out what is the activity that most reliably sends you into a flow state and to rearrange your schedule so that you get to visit that state AS MUCH AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN. What’s your activity going to be?

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1 year

This is one of those things I post with a voice in my head saying "this is too depressing for most people" but then another voice -- my voice -- saying: "It's not depressing, it's beautiful." It really is, and I hope you find it so. Do you love it as much as I do? Poem by Wendell

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4 years

This is one of the most beautifully expressed, life-altering ideas I know. “I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell But just coming to the end of his triumph.” What if you thought of your “failures” this way? The poet Jack Gilbert, via @holdengraber #Bittersweet

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4 years

I've started following more artists here, & it's changing my experience, from stress & confusion, to uplift & love. Emotional life is a function of what we pay attention to. You can usually feel sympathy to humans, & willingness to express shared pain, in the gaze of artists.

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7 years

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. ― E.E. Cummings

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Susan Cain

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4 years

My father passed away from COVID on Friday night. Here are seven things he taught me by example:

7 Things My Father Taught Me

I’m afraid I took an unplanned break from posting. My father passed away on Friday night.

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Susan Cain

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8 years

It’s okay to be alone, to be sad, to rest and repair. Really.

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3 years

#Introverts aren't anti-social. We're differently social. A glass of wine with a friend. A quiet holiday with family. Reading a book. Happy #WorldIntrovertDay ! How will you spend it? #Quiet

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3 years

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead.

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6 years

This is why the policy separating kids from parents is so horrifying. It’s bc of the evolutionary origins of human compassion, which comes from our impulse to protect the young. If we can’t cherish kids, we can’t cherish anyone:

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5 years

“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.” ―Albert Einstein (via @sbkaufman )

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Susan Cain

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2 years

Here’s a photo of me that my husband Ken just found, from right around the time I left my law firm, 22 years ago. I had no idea that I was about to pick up a lantern that would shine a light on the path to creativity - specifically, on the one core belief that guides every

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6 years

If there's anything better than sitting in a seaside cafe, salt on your hair and skin, latte on hand, Bohemian Rhapsody piping in, writing Chapter 4 of your next book....I don't know it. #MomentsInTime

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Susan Cain

@susancain

6 years

This is a good word: Sonder (from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows). “Sonder n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness..." Via @tferriss

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6 years

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Susan Cain

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4 years

So true, that it's a work of art. Graphic by @lizandmollie , whom you should follow for sure. They write and draw (in a v wise & charming way) about the emotions of work. (via Matt Donovan)

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7 years

If I told you that there was a very fun thing you could do every day that would make you smarter, healthier, and more empathic, would you want to know what it was (and start doing it)? There is such a thing. It’s called…reading!

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Susan Cain

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6 years

For all of you who weighed in on my cover design yesterday, huge thanks. Plus, I thought you’d appreciate this new mock-up, courtesy of my friend Amy Cuddy! 😉

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Susan Cain

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6 years

This is exactly it: Via @mitchjoel

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3 years

Ha! The truth is that conference organizers often ask me for advice on how to make gatherings more introvert-friendly, and this seems like a great idea. What do you all think? #introverts #conferences

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Susan Cain

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4 years

Well, I’ve actually, finally, turned in the ENTIRE manuscript of my next book! & now, months of editing... Photo: me at end of a writing day. A bit bleary-eyed, all slightly askew,portable pingpong table inexplicably folded up outside against my office door. But, utterly content.

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Susan Cain

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11 years

Manifesto for 2014 and beyond: http://t.co/7caqjCnnjL

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3 years

B/c this world seems too tough for sensitive souls, we conclude that there’s something wrong w/the trait. Not only is this misguided - sensitivity has its advantages - but also: who cares if the trait is ill-suited to an ever-coarsening world? That only makes it more vital.

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Susan Cain

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6 years

I must say that I’m very excited and honored for QUIET to be listed as one of the top ten on this list of “best brainy books of the decade!”

Best ‘brainy’ books of this decade

Writers and experts select their favourite book on physics, feminism, medicine, health, economics, psychology and more

www.theguardian.com

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Susan Cain

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8 years

I love this graphic so much. For you introverts out there, why are YOU quiet? (via @IntrovertDoodle )

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Susan Cain

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6 years

Well this is just the craziest news! I’ve just been named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices/ Influencers of 2018, along with @richardbranson , @melindagates , and my pals @BreneBrown , @johnsonwhitney , @SanyinSiang , and @bethcomstock . #LinkedInTopVoices

LinkedIn Top Voices 2018: Influencers

These are the 20 must-know Influencers driving the global business conversation. Every day, over 2 million posts, videos and articles course through the LinkedIn feed, generating tens of thousands of...

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The key to everything: give yourself permission to be who you really are. #IntrovertLessons101

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4 years

My husband and boys are off to play soccer, I am alone with the rain and my manuscript, life is sweet.

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5 years

“I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.” — Jim Harrison (via @tferriss )

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3 years

Big news! My new book, BITTERSWEET: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, is now avail for pre-order: . The book is my answer to this Q: what are the powers of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook, and why has our culture been so blind to its value?

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6 years

Most people feel that they become more and more authentic over the course of their lives. I think that the older we get, the less we give a damn who we’re “supposed” to be. True for you?

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3 years

The entire city of Chefchaouen, in Morocco, is painted in blue: the color of sea and sky, mystery and longing. (photographer unknown) #art #beauty #longing #bittersweet

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2 years

This may be my new favorite aphorism

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2/ Baghdads historic centre of book selling, Iraq The books are left unattended for the night in the book market because Iraqis say: “the reader does not steal and the thief does not read.”

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4 years

Impossible to watch this with dry eyes.

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4 years

Ex prima ballerina with dementia comes alive when she hears Swan Lake! Remarkable!

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Susan Cain

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6 years

Dearest Quiet Readers, We’re re-issuing Quiet with a new color scheme, and I’d love to know your opinion. Can you please tell me whether you prefer the first or second one? THANK YOU, Susan

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6 years

Friends Who Have Had Trouble Getting Into Meditation, here is your answer! The Waking Up app, by @SamHarrisOrg . And, to get a free month, just go here: and use this code: CAIN (I have zero financial incentive; I just love it and think you should try it).

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1 year

I know this feeling SO WELL. Though clearly Yeats had had a little coffee. "“My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed;

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Susan Cain

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5 years

Wishing you a beautiful day of thanks. May you be happy. May you be safe. May you be healthy. May you be loved. And if this message happens to land during a time when you feel only some, maybe even none, of these things, may the blessings find you just where you are.

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6 years

Loved sitting down with @tferriss to talk about overcoming fear, creativity, public speaking, Tim’s experience being bullied, lovingkindness meditation, the writing process, a sneak peek at my next book and at Tim’s next book, and many other things:

Susan Cain — How to Overcome Fear and Embrace Creativity (#357) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

“So often, when you see someone who’s really good at almost anything, it’s because they actually started out exactly the opposite and then they cared so much about fixing that problem.” — Susan Cain...

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4 years

It doesn’t matter whether ur atheist, agnostic, or devout. You don't have to follow any particular faith or wisdom tradition to realize that the sacred & miraculous is everywhere-literally all over the place-even tho we moderns tend to walk around not noticing it. Sujata Setia

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7 years

Here’s a peek at some the books I’m reading as I research my next book!

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1 year

What’s your life story? I don’t mean where you grew up, went to school, got your first job, etc. I mean what’s your STORY? What narrative have you constructed from the events of your life? And do you know that this is one of the most important questions you can ask yourself?

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8 years

This is for book-lovers everywhere.

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8 years

I think that this is the key to all creativity, actually. (via @livequiet )

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1 year

This quote, from the psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, really struck me. What he didn’t say, though it’s implied, is that you can keep your goal of a glorious future. “Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past.”

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5 years

My husband bought me this book for me on my birthday, and we both love it so much that now it has pride of place in our entryway. Here are some of the interior pages: Do any of these specially resonate?

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Susan Cain

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4 years

That moment when an author expresses something you’ve always known, yet never managed to articulate, or never quite so beautifully. That’s why I read, that’s why I write. Art: Jeremy Miranda, acrylic on panel (via @fraveris )

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8 years

And here is one of my favorite quotes of all time:

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4 years

This is where I live. Artist unknown (via @HWarlow )

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7 years

"One of the simplest — but admittedly hardest — things you can do is simply learn not to give a shit.” @work_matters

A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes

“Not giving a shit takes the wind out of an asshole’s sails.”

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4 years

The world’s greatest emotion may be “moral elevation” — the thrill of witnessing a morally spectacular act. Here you go.

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“Heroes do not have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done.” Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the holocaust. Some of the survivors surprised him 50 years later.

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5 years

Interesting article, but can we please retire the notion that introversion = lack of warmth? They’re unrelated traits. On the Big 5 personality scale, warmth has to do with how agreeable you are, not how extroverted you are.

What Makes People Charismatic, and How You Can Be, Too (Published 2019)

Simple tips to break through your social anxieties and make real, genuine connections with others.

www.nytimes.com

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@susancain

4 years

May you have an infinitely sweet, healthy, and peaceful year. Infinity Room: Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (at the Tate Modern)

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6 years

This is really all you need to know: "To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” —Mary Oliver

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5 years

I think we need a word for the unique love we feel for an artist, writer or musician who manages to express, with transcendent beauty, what it’s like to be alive. Does such a word exist, and I’m just not thinking of it? If not, anyone want to coin a new word for this feeling?

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2 years

My fellow #introverts : we always knew we were in great company... Here’s @McIlroyRory - #3 golfer in the world - recommending QUIET! Such an honor. Thank you, @McIlroyRory .

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. @McIlroyRory has arrived. The 2019 @THEPLAYERSChamp is ready to roll.

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6 years

The tide is turning against open office plans (and it can’t turn fast enough):

Everyone hates open offices. Here's why they still exist

A 2018 study by Harvard Business School found that open offices reduce face-to-face interaction by about 70% and increase email and messaging by roughly 50%, shattering the notion that they make...

www.fastcompany.com

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4 years

Bucket list: Ease someone’s suffering. Make something beautiful. Find someone to love. Find your way home. Art: The Morning Haze, by Martin Sprusansky

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4 years

"We read so that we know we are not alone." -- @ValaAfshar

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Roman Kerimov, Russian

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7 years

Here’s an interesting article for all you storytellers out there:

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4 years

"Language created 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone." - Paul Tillich (via Helen Moran)

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8 years

Never mistake your kindness as weakness. (via @livequiet )

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8 years

Why introverts are more likely to struggle w/ word retrieval & find it easier to express themselves through writing:

Why Introverts Might Struggle to Put Their Thoughts Into Words

Introverts often use their long-term memory more than their working memory.

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4 years

“If you’re listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever more wonders.” ― Andrew Harvey

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6 years

Loved sitting down with @tferriss to talk about overcoming fear, creativity, public speaking, Tim’s experience being bullied, lovingkindness meditation, the writing process, a sneak peek at my next book and at Tim’s next book, and many other things:

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2 years

From my dreaming mind to yours...happy #WorldIntrovertDay ! Art by @aeppol_kuma

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5 years

An unedited view of my current night table. Just because. What are you reading right now? Any good recommendations?

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1 year

"Childhood is the world of magic, where you see all things as fresh & new. It's where the astonishing is expected, where play is serious, where one believes that everything is endlessly possible. Those who keep this spirit alive are artists, poets, & dreamers." - Elliott Black,

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4 years

This is exactly what I look like (absent the white woolly beard) when reading. What appears to be depression is deep and utter contentment. "The Reader," by Ferdinand Hodler

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2 years

BREAKING NEWS! Dear all, OK I had to come out of my social media hiatus, to share this thrilling news with you: BITTERSWEET is going to be a play!! We’re creating it, even as I write this.

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4 years

My advice (as told to @tferriss ) on how to live a more creative life:

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8 years

How fast can you say "BINGO!"? (via @ThadLurie )

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7 years

What are YOU doing to celebrate?

World Introvert Day Is Coming and We Couldn't Be Happier

If the holidays are sucking you dry of energy and leaving you a shell of your former self, take heart: Relief has a name, and it is “World Introvert Day.”

introvertdear.com

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1 year

Because this world seems too tough for sensitive souls, many conclude that there’s something wrong with the trait. But not only is this misguided on its own terms – sensitivity has various evolutionary advantages – but also we should love each other’s sensitivity even if it

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5 years

So I’m about to leave for a crazy 9-day, 4-continents trip, to talk about #Quiet w/various biz leaders. Will update you as I go! 1st stop: keynoting at the Tableau Software conf. in Las Vegas #data19 . Will you be at Tableau? I would love to meet you in person!

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4 years

Chekhov, looking exactly as you'd expect him to look

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8 years

May you have the courage to speak softly. (via @livequiet )

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8 years

How to love an introvert:

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4 years

It’s the middle of winter, here in the Western hemisphere, so here are some cornflowers. Have a beautiful day, wherever you are! "Cornflowers," by Belgian painter Pol Ledent, via @HelennWarlow

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