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

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?

In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.)

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!