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personality traits <strong>of</strong> effective call-centeremployees. Grant predicted that the extrovertswould be better telemarketers,but it turned out that there was zerocorrelation between extroversion levelsand cold-call<strong>in</strong>g prowess.“<strong>The</strong> extroverts would make thesewonderful calls,” Grant told me, “butthen a sh<strong>in</strong>y object <strong>of</strong> some k<strong>in</strong>d wouldcross their paths and they’d lose focus.”<strong>The</strong> <strong>in</strong>troverts, <strong>in</strong> contrast, “would talkvery quietly, but boom, boom, boom,they were mak<strong>in</strong>g those calls. <strong>The</strong>ywere focused and determ<strong>in</strong>ed.” <strong>The</strong>only extroverts to outperform themwere those who also happened to beunusually high scorers for a separatepersonality trait measur<strong>in</strong>g conscientiousness.Introvert persistence wasmore than a match for extrovert buzz,<strong>in</strong> other words, even at a task where487/929

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