Benjamin Plumb > Quotes

“For introverts, authenticity is the key to fulfillment in life, but you cannot be authentic until you detach from your recipe, your survival strategy.

You may feel genuine as you act out the recipe, but at some level you know it’s a sham, and you spend your life hoping you won’t be found out.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically

“As an introvert, you have no flaw to compensate for. You can best gain the security and satisfaction you seek by proudly and openly emphasizing your quiet-person strengths.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically

“Beliefs are interpretations, not unwavering truths. The belief that likely has most damaged your life is that as an introvert you are defective. You are free to change that.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically

“Authenticity begins when you stop trying to prove yourself and start trusting who you already are.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically

“You can feel genuine while acting out your recipe, but somewhere deep inside you know it’s a sham — and you live in fear of being found out.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically

“If you were a rat, you would instinctively search for cheese at the end of every tunnel. Likewise, the winning recipe calls you down tunnels, chasing satisfaction. You rarely find it because through the recipe you are not looking to satisfy your authentic self.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically

“The mask that once protected us eventually becomes too heavy to carry. Cracks in it aren’t failures — they’re invitations to live more freely.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically

“An introvert’s survival strategy may look strong from the outside, but it is really a quiet submission we don’t even notice we are making.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically

“Freedom for an introvert doesn’t come from acting more extroverted, but from detaching from the mask we built to survive.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically

“Building the habit of stepping outside your mind to watch it in operation is the best way to expose the fallacies of some of its conclusions.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically

“What you resist in life tends to persist. Paradoxically, when you stop resisting it you can help it to disappear.”
― Benjamin Plumb, The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically