Lone Geniuses are Out...Collaboration is In - or is it?

But there’s a problem with this view. 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.

An exerpt from the New York Times Sunday Review article by Susan Cain, published on Jan 13, 2012.

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