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conversation. <strong>The</strong>y tend to dislike conflict.Many have a horror <strong>of</strong> small talk,but enjoy deep discussions.A few th<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong>troverts are not: <strong>The</strong>word <strong>in</strong>trovert is not a synonym for hermitor misanthrope. <strong>Introverts</strong> can bethese th<strong>in</strong>gs, but most are perfectlyfriendly. One <strong>of</strong> the most humanephrases <strong>in</strong> the English language—“Onlyconnect!”—was written by the dist<strong>in</strong>ctly<strong>in</strong>troverted E. M. Forster <strong>in</strong> anovel explor<strong>in</strong>g the question <strong>of</strong> how toachieve “human love at its height.”Nor are <strong>in</strong>troverts necessarily shy.Shyness is the fear <strong>of</strong> social disapprovalor humiliation, while <strong>in</strong>troversion is apreference for environments that arenot overstimulat<strong>in</strong>g. Shyness is <strong>in</strong>herentlypa<strong>in</strong>ful; <strong>in</strong>troversion is not. Onereason that people confuse the two conceptsis that they sometimes overlap(though psychologists debate to what53/929

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