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jeffrey_pdx

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2. Check out Quiet:The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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Sat Nov 22, 2014, 02:04 AM

Nov 2014

Written by Susan Cain
I personally can't work as efficiently when tons of people are chatting, etc.
I used to work in an "open office".
I'd come in early just to focus and and get whatever I needed to get done without distractions. If I had to have a meeting, I was prepared by the time they showed up (usually later than we agreed).

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