Quiet - Susan Cain
"That fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." Proust
Newton was one of the world's great introverts. William Wordsworth described him as "A mind forever/ Voyaging through strange seas of/ Thought alone."
The stereotype of the university professor is accurate for so many people on campus. They like to read; for them there's nothing more exciting than ideas. And some of this has to do with how they spent their time when they were growing up. If you spend a lot of time charging around, then you have less time for reading and learning. There's only so much time in your life. Jerry Miller
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Newton was one of the world's great introverts. William Wordsworth described him as "A mind forever/ Voyaging through strange seas of/ Thought alone."
The stereotype of the university professor is accurate for so many people on campus. They like to read; for them there's nothing more exciting than ideas. And some of this has to do with how they spent their time when they were growing up. If you spend a lot of time charging around, then you have less time for reading and learning. There's only so much time in your life. Jerry Miller
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi