By Susan Cain
ISBN-10: 0307352145
ISBN-13: 9780307352149
At least one-third of the folks we all know are introverts. they're those preferring hearing conversing, studying to partying; who innovate and create yet dislike self-promotion; who desire engaged on their very own over brainstorming in groups. even though they can be categorized "quiet," it truly is to introverts that we owe the various nice contributions to society--from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the discovery of the non-public computer.
Passionately argued, impressively researched, and jam-packed with indelible tales of actual humans, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and what sort of we lose in doing so. Taking the reader on a trip from Dale Carnegie’s birthplace to Harvard enterprise college, from a Tony Robbins seminar to an evangelical megachurch, Susan Cain charts the increase of the Extrovert excellent within the 20th century and explores its far-reaching results. She talks to Asian-American scholars who believe alienated from the brash, backslapping surroundings of yank faculties. She questions the dominant values of yankee company tradition, the place compelled collaboration can stand within the method of innovation, and the place the management capability of introverts is frequently ignored. and he or she attracts on state-of-the-art learn in psychology and neuroscience to bare the outstanding modifications among extroverts and introverts.
Perhaps most galvanizing, she introduces us to profitable introverts--from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly faucets into the facility of questions. eventually, she bargains helpful recommendation on every thing from easy methods to larger negotiate changes in introvert-extrovert relationships to easy methods to empower an introverted baby to whilst it is sensible to be a "pretend extrovert."
This impressive e-book has the facility to completely swap how we see introverts and, both vital, how introverts see themselves.
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