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enter<strong>in</strong>g it. A similar th<strong>in</strong>g happenedwhen groups <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>troverts and extrovertswere given the Raven StandardProgressive Matrices, an <strong>in</strong>telligencetest that consists <strong>of</strong> five sets <strong>of</strong> problems<strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g difficulty. <strong>The</strong> extrovertstended to do better on the firsttwo sets, presumably because <strong>of</strong> theirability to orient quickly to their goal.But on the three more difficult sets,where persistence pays, the <strong>in</strong>trovertssignificantly outperformed them. By thef<strong>in</strong>al, most <strong>com</strong>plicated set, the extrovertswere much more likely than the<strong>in</strong>troverts to abandon the taskaltogether.<strong>Introverts</strong> sometimes outperform extrovertseven on social tasks that requirepersistence. Wharton managementpr<strong>of</strong>essor Adam Grant (who conductedthe leadership studies described<strong>in</strong> chapter 2) once studied the486/929

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