Famous Introverted People – Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves

It wouldn’t be unfair to say that Keanu Reeves is one of Hollywood’s greatest outcasts. Despite being one of the best known actors today, he is renown for a shy, solitary reputation and down to earth lifestyle, including a small apartment instead of a mansion, lack of fancy clothing, and a lack of any kind [...]

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    Are You Experiencing A Quarter Life Crisis?

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    Does getting dressed every morning in clothes that you buy for work, to drive through traffic in a car that you’re still paying off, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave empty all day so you can [...]

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      9 Ways To Master The Art Of Listening

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      Everyone thinks they’re great listeners. What’s easier than sitting down and just hearing what a person has to say right?  Wrong. Hearing isn’t necessarily listening, nor is it necessarily listening well.  As G.K. Chesterton said “there’s a lot of difference between hearing and listening.”  The truth is, many people come to conversations with agendas, whether [...]

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        Emotional Abuse: The Quiet Killer

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          “Emotional violence is another kind of abuse … it’s not about words because an emotionally abusive person doesn’t always resort to using the verbal club, but rather the verbal untraceable poison.”  ~ Augusten Burroughs It was after reading the above passage in a book I recently completed by Augusten Burroughs that I stopped dead [...]

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          Parenting An Introvert From The Perspective Of A Child

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          Dear Mom and Dad, I’m writing this letter to let you help me. I feel sad and very bad when you make angry faces at me and sometimes make me do things I hate doing.  This is why I’m naughty sometimes, and throw tantrums. You don’t let me do things I love, instead you make [...]

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            Commitments: The Quiet Leeches of Life

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              There are various odors of disquieting provenance in this room.  I suspect they might come from under the ping pong table in the kitchen, just past the precarious skyline of empty Sprite bottles.  Our quaint, slightly cramped five bedroom home has taken on some sort of hybridized character between a heroin den and U-boat. [...]

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              The Hikikomori: Japan’s Young Hermits

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                “Now in sad autumn, I take my darkening path, a solitary bird.”  ~ Japanese poem, Basho When you were a teenager, what did you do to rebel?  Did you turn to drugs, alcohol, sex, or perhaps join a punk, emo, or goth subcultural group?  Well in Japan, the youth are different.  They completely withdraw [...]

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                Edgar Allan Poe – Famous Introverted People

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                “The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps one of the most renown Gothic, melancholic and alcoholic American writers of all time. Like many great writers, he was also fairy introverted. Poe was [...]

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                  Emily Dickinson – Famous Introverted People

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                  “The consequences of the poet’s refusal to disseminate her work in a faithful and orderly fashion are still very much with us.”  ~  p.629, My Wars Are Laid Away In Books, Alfred Habegger Elusive, mysterious and reclusive, Emily Dickinson was perhaps one of the most introverted female poets in history.  Born on December 10, 1830 [...]

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                    Introvert Quotes On Creativity

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                    Artists, scientist, poets, novelists, actors and film directors have, over the centuries, declared there to be one essential ingredient to creative success: solitude.  From Picasso to Kafka, and Tim Burton to John Cleese, solitude has been found to not only provide the impetus for unique and profound expressions of art, but has provided the creative [...]

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                      Does Being An Introvert Make You Self Absorbed?

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                      We never like thinking about our faults, our flaws and our insufferable frailties as human beings. How many of you actively ask the people around you: “well guys, what sucks about me today?” so that you have something to work on to better yourself as a human being?  Not many. The truth is, we like [...]

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                        Is A Complaint Free World Possible?

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                        “Man spends his life reasoning in the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing the future.”  ~  Antoine Rivarol Before reading any further, please interrogate yourself with this question, be brutally honest: do you enjoy complaining?  Just think about it for a while. Think about all those times you’ve congregated with a group of [...]

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