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Narcissistic Personalities Usually Do Do Better Than You And Me And The Average Person. We've Always Seen It In The Office. The Person Who Speaks Up More In Meetings, The Person Who's Charismatic, Who Can Sell An Idea With More Excitement And Energy.

At The Root Of The Shy Temperament Is A Deep Fear Of Social Judgment, One So Severe It Can Sometimes Be Crippling. Introverted People Don't Worry Unduly About Whether They'll Be Found Wanting, They Just Find Too Much Socializing Exhausting And Would Prefer Either To Be Alone Or In The Company Of A Select Few People.

Toxins Love To Get You While You're Young. Lead, Mercury, Secondhand Smoke And Sundry Other Environmental Nasties Do A Lot More Damage When Tissue Is Immature, Vulnerable And Growing Than When It's Mature And Comparatively Fixed.

Indeed, The Best Way To Think Of Willpower Is Not As Some Shapeless Behavioral Trait But As A Sort Of Psychic Muscle, One That Can Atrophy Or Grow Stronger Depending On How It's Used.

Is There Anything Sadder Than The Foods Of The 1950s? Canned, Frozen, Packaged Concoctions, Served Up By The Plateful, Three Meals Per Day, In An Era In Which The Supermarket Was King, The Farmer's Market Was, Well, For Farmers, And The Word 'locavore' Sounded Vaguely Like A Mythical Beast.