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<strong>in</strong>terpersonally skilled but “not <strong>of</strong> anespecially sociable or participative temperament.”<strong>The</strong>y described themselvesas <strong>in</strong>dependent and <strong>in</strong>dividualistic. Asteens, many had been shy and solitary.<strong>The</strong>se f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gs don’t mean that <strong>in</strong>trovertsare always more creative than extroverts,but they do suggest that <strong>in</strong> agroup <strong>of</strong> people who have been extremelycreative throughout their lifetimes,you’re likely to f<strong>in</strong>d a lot <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>troverts.Why should this be true? Doquiet personalities <strong>com</strong>e with some <strong>in</strong>effablequality that fuels creativity?Perhaps, as we’ll see <strong>in</strong> chapter 6.But there’s a less obvious yet surpris<strong>in</strong>glypowerful explanation for <strong>in</strong>troverts’creative advantage—an explanationthat everyone can learn from: <strong>in</strong>trovertsprefer to work <strong>in</strong>dependently, andsolitude can be a catalyst to <strong>in</strong>novation.As the <strong>in</strong>fluential psychologist Hans223/929

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