Kenji Yoshino

and are constantly being asked to torque themselves to lie down on the Procrustean bed of extroversion so that we have this extrovert ideal in American society that says that a true leader is a kind of back-slapping, glad-handing, charismatic, you know, person. and that the introvert really needs to adapt to that modality if they want to get anywhere in life.

and are constantly being asked to torque themselves to lie down on the Procrustean bed of extroversion so that we have this extrovert ideal in American society that says that a true leader is a kind of back-slapping, glad-handing, charismatic, you know, person. and that the introvert really needs to adapt to that modality if they want to get anywhere in life.

She makes a really compelling moral and policy-based case for why this shouldn't be the case, saying that people are just naturally introverted or extroverted. Even in our own history, if you go back in time, Our greatest leaders, like James Madison or Abraham Lincoln, were classic introverts.

She makes a really compelling moral and policy-based case for why this shouldn't be the case, saying that people are just naturally introverted or extroverted. Even in our own history, if you go back in time, Our greatest leaders, like James Madison or Abraham Lincoln, were classic introverts.

She makes a really compelling moral and policy-based case for why this shouldn't be the case, saying that people are just naturally introverted or extroverted. Even in our own history, if you go back in time, Our greatest leaders, like James Madison or Abraham Lincoln, were classic introverts.

So this idea that there's something inconsistent between being an introvert and being a leader is something that our own history completely belies.

So this idea that there's something inconsistent between being an introvert and being a leader is something that our own history completely belies.

So this idea that there's something inconsistent between being an introvert and being a leader is something that our own history completely belies.

So one of the things that I think is really important is to just keep a weather eye out for these emerging identity categories where if you say, you know, in a certain point of time, oh, what about introversion or what about depression or mental health issues, You know, other people might say, well, those are kind of tangential or epiphenomenal identities.

So one of the things that I think is really important is to just keep a weather eye out for these emerging identity categories where if you say, you know, in a certain point of time, oh, what about introversion or what about depression or mental health issues, You know, other people might say, well, those are kind of tangential or epiphenomenal identities.

So one of the things that I think is really important is to just keep a weather eye out for these emerging identity categories where if you say, you know, in a certain point of time, oh, what about introversion or what about depression or mental health issues, You know, other people might say, well, those are kind of tangential or epiphenomenal identities.

This is not about sort of race or gender, and so therefore I'm going to ignore it. My analysis would be quite different, which would be a kind of curiosity about those identities to say, please tell me more, right? And to ask, as we were discussing earlier, What possible justification could an individual have on the other side of asking people to change or cover the underlying identity?

This is not about sort of race or gender, and so therefore I'm going to ignore it. My analysis would be quite different, which would be a kind of curiosity about those identities to say, please tell me more, right? And to ask, as we were discussing earlier, What possible justification could an individual have on the other side of asking people to change or cover the underlying identity?

This is not about sort of race or gender, and so therefore I'm going to ignore it. My analysis would be quite different, which would be a kind of curiosity about those identities to say, please tell me more, right? And to ask, as we were discussing earlier, What possible justification could an individual have on the other side of asking people to change or cover the underlying identity?

So if I say you have to cover because leaders are just extroverts and so you should be ashamed or downplay your introverted identity, again, our history upends that assumption. So there's nothing inconsistent with being a leader and being an introvert. We should celebrate leaders who are great orators, but we should also celebrate leaders who are great listeners.

So if I say you have to cover because leaders are just extroverts and so you should be ashamed or downplay your introverted identity, again, our history upends that assumption. So there's nothing inconsistent with being a leader and being an introvert. We should celebrate leaders who are great orators, but we should also celebrate leaders who are great listeners.

So if I say you have to cover because leaders are just extroverts and so you should be ashamed or downplay your introverted identity, again, our history upends that assumption. So there's nothing inconsistent with being a leader and being an introvert. We should celebrate leaders who are great orators, but we should also celebrate leaders who are great listeners.

Similarly with depression, I'm so delighted that we're finally having the mental health conversation nationally that we need to have. I realize we're still in early days, but I feel like we were talking about it in a way that we have not talked about it in my lifetime. So I view that to be a really positive development.

Similarly with depression, I'm so delighted that we're finally having the mental health conversation nationally that we need to have. I realize we're still in early days, but I feel like we were talking about it in a way that we have not talked about it in my lifetime. So I view that to be a really positive development.

Similarly with depression, I'm so delighted that we're finally having the mental health conversation nationally that we need to have. I realize we're still in early days, but I feel like we were talking about it in a way that we have not talked about it in my lifetime. So I view that to be a really positive development.