Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hatโlike figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. โIn mass, [children] terrify me,โ he admitted.
Susan CainAmerica 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.
Susan CainJealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
Susan Cain