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utton and f<strong>in</strong>d they’ve lost a po<strong>in</strong>t,they slow down before mov<strong>in</strong>g on tothe next number, as if to reflect onwhat went wrong. But extroverts notonly fail to slow down, they actuallyspeed up.This seems strange; why would anyonedo this? Newman expla<strong>in</strong>s that itmakes perfect sense. If you focus onachiev<strong>in</strong>g your goals, as reward-sensitiveextroverts do, you don’t want anyth<strong>in</strong>gto get <strong>in</strong> your way—neithernaysayers nor the number n<strong>in</strong>e. Youspeed up <strong>in</strong> an attempt to knock theseroadblocks down.Yet this is a crucially important misstep,because the longer you pause toprocess surpris<strong>in</strong>g or negative feedback,the more likely you are to learn from it.If you force extroverts to pause, saysNewman, they’ll do just as well as <strong>in</strong>trovertsat the numbers game. But, left479/929

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