Introverts in quarantine are thus less likely than extroverts to feel deflated, isolated or bored, and more likely to be energized, perhaps welcoming the lack of distraction to go deep into, well, whatever https://trib.al/2ipk2f4 

Take John Keats, one of England’s greatest poets.

He was sick from tuberculosis at the age of 24, when typhoid broke out. Keats was quarantined on a boat offshore from Naples for 10 days. He spent time writing moving letters and a memoir of his childhood https://trib.al/2ipk2f4 

Isaac Newton was at Cambridge University when the bubonic plague broke out.

Like schools and universities today, Cambridge closed and sent its students home. Newton was stuck on his family estate in rural Lincolnshire https://trib.al/2ipk2f4 

Young Newton spent endless hours alone in nature, in pensive absorption.

Once he saw an apple fall from a tree, and realized that it responded to the same force as the moon orbiting the earth, which led him to a theory of gravity https://trib.al/2ipk2f4 

Newton also observed light in its many colors and began thinking about optics. And he applied his logic to nature in a way that led him to pioneer calculus.

Historians now call Newton’s quarantine his annus mirabilis, or miracle year https://trib.al/2ipk2f4 

At least something positive could result from this pandemic.

Introverts across the world are giving their undivided attention and creativity to composing a symphony, conceiving an algorithm, painting a canvas or writing a book https://trib.al/2ipk2f4