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partner, and to pursue autonomous worklike art, research, math, and eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g.Extroversion and <strong>in</strong>troversion even predictthe psychological challenges you mightface: depression and anxiety for <strong>in</strong>troverts(th<strong>in</strong>k Woody Allen); hostility, narcissism,and overconfidence for extroverts (th<strong>in</strong>kCapta<strong>in</strong> Ahab <strong>in</strong> Moby-Dick, drunk withrage aga<strong>in</strong>st a white whale).In addition, there are studies show<strong>in</strong>gthat the personality <strong>of</strong> a seventy-year-oldcan be predicted with remarkable accuracyfrom early adulthood on. In other words,despite the remarkable variety <strong>of</strong> situationsthat we experience <strong>in</strong> a lifetime, our coretraits rema<strong>in</strong> constant. It’s not that our personalitiesdon’t evolve; Kagan’s research onthe malleability <strong>of</strong> high-reactive people hass<strong>in</strong>glehandedly disproved this notion. Butwe tend to stick to predictable patterns. Ifyou were the tenth most <strong>in</strong>troverted person<strong>in</strong> your high school class, your behavior910/929

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