Laurie Helgoe Quotes
Introverts tend to internalize problems. In other words, we place the source of problems within and blame ourselves. Though introverts may also externalize and see others as the problem, it's more convenient to keep the problem "in house." Internalizers tend to be reliable and responsible, but we can also be very hard on ourselves.
Helgoe, Laurie. Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength. Sourcebooks, Inc., 2008.
In 2006 the Republican Party controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency. A national debate began over illegal immigration and the Republican party was split over what to do about the 11 million illegal immigrants living and working among us and their roughly 3 million American-born children who were citizens of the United States. The Republican House and the Republican Senate were at loggerheads over two different approaches to the problem and nothing was getting done.
Laurie Anne Helgoe is an American psychologist with a special interest in the relationship between personality development and culture. In 2008, her writing revealed that scholarly and popular accounts regarding humans who display the personality traits of introversion and extraversion were flawed, and that, instead of representing a 25-30% of the population, introverts make up 57% of the population. The identified flaw was a dated reliance on the early work of Isabel Briggs Myers, and the failure to note results of the latest nationally representative surveys using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a questionnaire used by psychologists to classify human personality traits. Helgoe discussed these findings in the book Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life is Your Hidden Strength (Sourcebooks, 2008, 2013).
