16 Super Successful Introverts

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/08/15/famous-introverts_n_3733400.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

By Laura Schocker
Aug. 13, 2015

Abraham Lincoln and Emma Watson have something in common. So do Eleanor Roosevelt and Christina Aguilera. They, like an estimated one third to one half of the population, are introverts.

While extroverts tend to gain their energy in social situations, introverts typically recharge through solitude and feel drained from too much stimulation. It might be easy to assume that those who gravitate toward the spotlight of fame are extroverts, but the truth is that many of our most prominent faces, past and present, have actually identified as introverts.

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Bill Gates
Abraham Lincoln
Christina Aguilera
Eleanor Roosevelt
Courteney Cox
Albert Einstein
Emma Watson
Mahatma Gandhi
Laura Bush
Rosa Parks
Audrey Hepburn
Warren Buffett
Roy Rogers
Candice Bergen
George Stephanopoulos