A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE HOW YOU SEE INTROVERTS – AND YOURSELF – FOREVER. ‘I can’t get Quiet out of my head. It is an important book – so persuasive and timely and heartfelt it should inevitably effect change in schools and offices’ Jon Ronson, The Guardian There is a hidden force shaping almost every decision in your life — who you fall in love with, which career you pursue, whether you flush with embarrassment in a crowded room. That force is where you sit on the introvert-extrovert spectrum, the most fundamental dimension of human personality. At least a third of the people around you are introverts, yet sensitivity, seriousness and a preference for quiet are routinely treated as flaws to be corrected rather than strengths to be harnessed. Without introverts, the world would have no Apple computer, no theory of relativity and no Van Gogh sunflowers. In Quiet, Susan Cain makes a passionate, superbly researched case for the introvert — examining how society misunderstands and undervalues them, while giving introverts themselves the tools to better understand their own nature and make full use of their considerable strengths. Drawing on vivid real-life stories, Cain’s argument is as compelling for extroverts as for introverts: a book that genuinely changes the way you see other people. ‘Susan Cain’s Quiet has sparked a quiet revolution . . . Perhaps rather than sitting back and asking people to speak up, managers and company leaders might lean forward and listen’ Megan Walsh, The Times ‘Maybe the extrovert ideal is no longer as powerful as it was; perhaps it is time we all stopped to listen to the still, small voice of calm’ Daisy Goodwin, The Sunday Times
ISBN 13: 9780141029191
Author: Susan Cain
