Being Relatively Unmoved By Rewards

What If You Love Knowledge For Its Own Sake, Not Necessarily As A Blueprint To Action? What If You Wish There Were More, Not Fewer Reflective Types In The World?

Being Relatively Unmoved By Rewards Gives You The Incalculable Power To Go Your Own Way.

The Pressure To Entertain, To Sell Ourselves, And Never To Be Visibly Anxious Keeps Ratcheting Up.

Now That You're An Adult, You Might Still Feel A Pang Of Guilt When You Decline A Dinner Invitation In Favor Of A Good Book. Or Maybe You Like To Eat Alone In Restaurants And Could Do Without The Pitying Looks From Fellow Diners. Or You're Told That You're "in Your Head Too Much", A Phrase That's Often Deployed Against The Quiet And Cerebral. Or Maybe There's Another Word For Such People: Thinkers.

(finland Is A Famously Introverted Nation. Finnish Joke: How Can You Tell If A Finn Likes You? He's Staring At Your Shoes Instead Of His Own.)