11 Laurie Helgoe Quotes for You to Enjoy

Laurie Helgoe

American Psychologist

Born: Dec 10, 1960

Creative Energy Love Value Work You

Related authors: Abraham Maslow Angela Duckworth B. F. Skinner Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Erich Fromm Erik Erikson Phil McGraw Wayne Dyer

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. Laurie Helgoe

Work You Creative Better Employees Energy Draw Out Introvert More Leaders Force Effective Proactive Going Energetic

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

Solitude Rich Drawn Observers Like Ideas Passionate Being Us

America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. Laurie Helgoe

Silence Privacy Culture Communication Value Values Style Unlike Say Those Characteristic East East Asia Direct Restraint More Finland Individualism Noisy Qualities Dominant Germany America Which Asia Fast-Paced Societies Associated

Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small. Laurie Helgoe

Life You Important Nice Rejection Way Embrace Small Maintain Most Most Important Thing Limited Got Important Thing Up Very The Hardest Thing The Most Important Breaking Breaking Up Hardest Hardest Thing Neat Thing

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan. Laurie Helgoe

Define Tendency Troubled Am Very Lack Preference Plan

I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace. Laurie Helgoe

Home Creative Society Nine Apt Kids See Ten Come Mostly Loud American Pit Childhood American Society Description Competing Number

There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet! Laurie Helgoe

Love Freedom Peace World Space Diversity First World Peace Melting Melting Pot Would Find Introvert About Pot Crowded Fact Individualism Feel Daydream New Concepts Attractive Were Lot Quiet America New World In Fact To Love England

A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own. Laurie Helgoe

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