As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

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

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

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

Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.