Participants in brainstorming sessions usually believe that their group performed much better than it actually did, which points to a valuable reason for their continued popularity – group brainstorming makes people feel attached. A worthy goal, so long as we understand that social glue, as opposed to creativity, is the principal benefit.
My dream is to live off the land on a thousand acres.
When someone asks us “How are things?” we may give a throwaway answer, but our true response is a function of how well our core personal projects are going.
Indeed, studies show that face-to-face interactions create trust in a way that online interactions can’t.
Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid. They hurt other people; they can get their speaker into trouble.
He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.
There’s only one problem with Osborn’s breakthrough idea: group brainstorming doesn’t actually work.
We are like rubber bands at rest. We are elastic and can stretch ourselves, but only so much.
Keltner, is a moral emotion.
Here’s a rule of thumb for networking events: one new honest-to-goodness relationship is worth ten fistfuls of business cards.
A hundred people are very stimulating compared to a hundred books or a hundred grains of sand.” Many.
Nor are introverts necessarily shy. Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating.
Ericsson wondered what had happened. “I really thought about this a lot,” he recalls in an interview with Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code.
No one can hear her. No one tries.
He wasn’t concerned with getting credit or even with being in charge; he simply assigned work to those who could perform it best.
The contrast is striking,” writes Michael Harris Bond, a cross-cultural psychologist who focuses on China. “The Americans emphasize sociability and prize those attributes that make for easy, cheerful association. The Chinese emphasize deeper attributes, focusing on moral virtues and achievement.” Another.
It’s a Free Trait Agreement when you attend your extroverted best friend’s wedding shower, engagement celebration, and bachelorette party, but she understands when you skip out on the three days’ worth of group activities leading up to the wedding itself.
It may be that some disadvantaged kids who get into trouble suffer not solely from poverty or neglect, say those who hold this view, but also from the tragedy of a bold and exuberant temperament deprived of healthy outlets.
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of use feel we must conform. Introversion is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.
I’ve never been in a group environment in which I didn’t feel obliged to present an unnaturally rah-rah version of myself.