Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking
My Review
This book is interesting, encouraging, and well-written and makes an introvert feel a bit more in touch in this personality worshiping culture.
I must agree with the author that we introverts need our alone time to be creative.
As Cain says, "artists work best alone where they can control an invention's design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee."
I agree with most of what is written but I wish the author had moved through a bit more quickly the chapter on raising an introverted child. This went on and on and the repetition got to be boring.
All in all, I could relate to this book and smile at several of the author's quips such as "It's OK to cross the street to avoid making small talk."
Good reading for all of us introverts and parents or spouses of introverts.
Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking
Sometimes it helps to be a pretend-extrovert. There's always time to be quiet later.
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"Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts--in other words, one out of every two or three people you know," Cain writes. "If you're not an introvert yourself, you are surely raising, managing, married to, or coupled with one."
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- The Power of Introverts
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