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The book that started the Quiet Revolution
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.
In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane pub...
Author: Susan Cain
SUSAN CAIN is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, which has been translated into more than thirty languages. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times; Dallas Morning News; O, The Oprah Magazine; Time.com; and PsychologyToday.com. Cain has also spoken at Microsoft, Google, the U.S. Treasury, and at TED 2012. Since her TED talk was posted online, it has been viewed over three million times. She has appeared on national broadcast television and radio, including CBS’s This Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered, and NPR’s Diane Rehm, and her work has been featured on the cover of Time and in The New Yorker, The At...
Stephen Covey
