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“So I was talking earlier about the psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He famously wrote a book about flow. It's literally called Flow. And flow is the state of mind you get into when you're totally engaged in an activity, and you're completely absorbed by it, and you're feeling neither bored nor anxious, you're just in it. And the book just describes all the research on this date and what it is, and it completely changed my life, so I recommend that one all the time. And also The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, who was just a great mythologist, and completely fascinating, and-”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I took like seven years, and I just sent in a book proposal to my agent two days ago for another book, which will undoubtedly take five, or six, or seven years. And I have wondered how I'm going to do it together with the Substack, but I don't know.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I guess I would say the Substack that I'm doing is my baby and my labor of love, so if you want to partake of it, I would love to have you there.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Speaking of that, it reminds me of, I don't know if this was in your book or a different book, there's some data that shows salespeople that are more introverted are actually more successful.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think people hear this idea that you teach in your book that you can be very successful as an introvert, and I bet it's intellectually difficult to actually believe you can be as successful as an introvert versus being an extrovert.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“You would think, you would think. The problem is it just would be too much work.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think one of the main hacks to understand about how we humans relate to each other is how much we are picking up unconsciously, a thousand different cues that we're sending out without even knowing that we are.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think that the most recent study I've seen shows the most successful salespeople are ambiverts, because they're extroverted enough to close the deal, they're introverted enough to do the listening that good salesmanship usually requires.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Those kinds of questions tell you a lot about what your true preferences are. And I stress that phrase true preferences because for introverts in an extroverted culture, we spend so much time kind of unconsciously adapting to what we think our preferences are supposed to be, that I hear from many people that they kind of have lost touch with how they actually prefer to spend their time.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Absolutely. And I would say in addition to that, I don't think that that means that you need to be limited only to writing.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Both because ideas that get advanced early tend psychologically to be anchoring ideas that people pay more attention to.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because on that score, most of us actually become more introverted with time. And I don't know if you would describe yourself this way, but I remember for me, even though I was a shy person in high school, I would come home from school and spend my whole evening talking to all my friends on the phone.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“e. I prefer to play in a mellower way. The key for both of those kids is to understand that they will tend to have a longer runway that they travel down before they take off and fly.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think that's part of the reason I take as long as I do to write them, because I'm like dreading the promotional period, so I'm just putting it off.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“The third thing I would say is when they're feeling shy or uncomfortable, just talk about it openly in a light way.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because I think what we really want is to learn to be completely comfortable as ourselves.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“That is very much our experience, but before the company, and some extent during it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I find it to be so true also. And also even just for attending networking events, like if you've done something valuable, those events are much easier because people want to talk to you about whatever that thing is, and you want to talk to them about their thing, and then all the other things that you didn't even know about each other.”
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- Lenny's Podcast