Susan Cain (2012) Quiet. The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

I am introverted, so why am I telling you this? Does that make me an extroverted introvert, or worse, is it an affectation something I've adopted along the way to make myself more interesting, like a lisp and a way of twisting my finger upwards when drinking tea, but nobody noticed? The answer, of course, is it's complicated. Introversion or extroversion is on a continuum. I scored about 15 out of 20 in the initial check-list score, with 2 or 3 that edged one way then the other. Shouldn't I be hiding in a garret, with my feet on the hatch? Well I tend to do that too, but for me a simple test of whether you're an extrovert or introvert is whether you laugh out loud when you read something or see something on screen. Laughter is contagious, but it's also a social phenomenon. I refuse to laugh at Anchorman, for example, because I don't find it funny. I'll chuckle away happily by myself at Laurel and Hardy or the modern equivalent The Simpsons. Introverts like being by themselves. Others love the limelight. Charles Green the outspoken chairman of Rangers, for example, has been made to resign because of possible links with White. There's a certain irony here in Green and White taking over Rangers, but part of Green's trouble was he couldn't keep his mouth shut. He liked being in front of the camera. He liked being the centre of attention. He wasn't stupid. Even a chicken brain knew that Murray Park and Ibrox were worth more than the five million that they paid for them. Add in a fanatical following. How can you fail to make money? All you have to do is keep your mouth closed and talk like an autocue as Fergus McCann did at Celtic Park. This is one end of the spectrum. Cain shows that the banking crisis, to what kind of things we like doing, are all influenced by the deep down kind of person we are. The problem is sometimes it takes a lifetime to find out. This is worth reading and pondering over, but if you're doing that you already know the answer.