Suitcases - Susan Cain

Take a good look at what’s inside your suitcase, and why you put it there. So, extroverts, maybe your suitcases are also full of books. Or maybe they’re full of champagne glasses or sky diving equipment. Whatever it is, I hope you take these things out every chance you get and grace us with your energy and your joy. But introverts—you being you, you probably have the impulse to guard very carefully what’s inside your own suitcase. And that’s okay. But occasionally, just occasionally, I hope you will open up your suitcases for other people to see because the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.