What your silence actually means as an Introvert “Why Are You So Quiet?” – I have been asked this question more times than I can count. At school. At work. At family gatherings where everyone else seemed to have an endless supply of words and I was sitting there, listening, thinking, trying to figure out […]
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Why introverts hand their decisions to other people — and what it takes to stop. When Keeping the Peace Costs You Everything For years, I thought I was being reasonable.When the contractors asked me what I wanted, I told them: just finish it quickly, however you think is best. I didn’t want to seem difficult.
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We’ve been renovating our home for two months. We still don’t have baseboards.Not because I don’t care. Not because I’m avoiding it. But because every time I stand in front of the samples, I start thinking — about the floor, the light in the afternoon, whether we’ll repaint in three years, whether this shade will
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