Laurie Helgoe Quotes

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• As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.

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  Worst Enemy, Envy, Solitude

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.194, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.

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  Solitude, Good Advice, Introvert

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• Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

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  Reading, Perspective, Exit

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.233, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

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  Bored, Groups, Crowds

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

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  Solitude, Might, Quiet

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• As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.But, we can go too far. We can hoard responsibility and overlook the role others play. We can kick ourselves when we're down. How many times have you felt lousy about something, only to get mad at yourself for feeling lousy?

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  Responsibility, Worst Enemy, Play

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• Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts—is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.

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  Crazy, Extroverts, Stuff

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• Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.

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  Hate, People, Introvert

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.146, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

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  Introvert, Pleasure, Scene

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.139, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo. And like jazz, once we get going, we can play all night. Extrovert conversations are more like tennis matches, where thoughts are batted back and forth, and players need to be ready to respond. Introverts get winded pretty quickly.

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  Nice, Player, Night

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• Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.

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  Thinking, Doors, Ideas

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• Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

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  Ideas, Solitude, Passionate

  "Interview With Dr. Laurie Helgoe, Author of Introvert Power". Interview with Sophia Dembling, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2009.

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• When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.

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  Quiet, Introvert, Turns

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Introverts process information internally, and we don't like to express our thoughts until they are fully formed.

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  Information, Introvert, Process

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self expression. When a song moves you, a writer gets you or a theory enlightens you, you and its creator are connecting in a realm beyond sight or speech.

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  Song, Moving, Sight

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.72, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

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  Thinking, Body, Faces

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.

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  Feelings, Thumbs, Introvert

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.185, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But "fun" itself is a "bright" word, the kind of word that comes with flashing lights and an exclamation point! One of Merriam-Webster's definitions of "fun" is "violent or excited activity or argument." The very word makes me want to sit in a dimly lit room with lots of pillows-by myself.

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  Fun, Light, Exclamation Points

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• Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.

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  Problem, Source

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• Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

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  Culture, Introvert

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.236, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.

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  Hate, Compromise, Sometimes

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• Extroverts are more attuned to social rewards, so they are more likely to flash a smile for effect. A notable exception are introverts - like me - whom I call "socially accessible" introverts. We have been trained well to smile and nod, which can place a burden on our processing efforts.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Effort, Extroverts, Rewards

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

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  Light, Brain, Levels

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• Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

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  Creative, Leader, Energy

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• Introverts often assume what's inside is visible on the outside. We don't have to invent or fake the emotion; we just need to allow it to be seen!

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  Fake, Needs, Emotion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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