Introversion and Solitude Increase Productivity

bonch writes "Author Susan Cain argues that modern society's focus on charisma and group brainstorming has harmed creativity and productivity by removing the quiet, creative process. 'Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist. They're extroverted enough to exchange and advance ideas, but see themselves as independent and individualistic. They're not joiners by nature.'"

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Re:Interesting

[hedwards]

It's not disingenuous. It's not really productive if you end up having to do things over because you ignored an email that changed the course of the work. And there's a hell of a lot more bandwidth for in person communication than there is for either email or phone conversations. If you've found otherwise then chances are you were doing something horribly, horribly wrong.

Personally, I like working alone, but it really is that much faster if you've got somebody else in the room to do business with.