[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.