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?

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.