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Quiet is a book full of impressionable stories of real people. The book shows how much we undervalue introverts and take them for granted, and in the process we turn out to be the ultimate losers.

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In the book, Susan takes the reader’s on a journey from Dale Carnegie’s birthplace to a seminar by Tony Robbins. She very effectively maps the rise of the Extrovert Ideal and seeks out far reaching results. Susan Cain goes by step forward in the book by talking to Asian-American students and how they feel left out at school. She dwells deeper into the topic by drawing on cutting edge research in psychology and neuroscience to show the vast differences between introverts and extroverts. This book can be most inspiring as she introduces the readers to some very successful introverts, a record-breaking salesman, a witty public speaker. She also advises her readers how to better deal with an introverted child.

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Susan Cain is an American writer. She graduated from Princeton University and earned her degree from Harvard Law School. Following the publication of her book Quiet, Susan has been one of the renowned speakers in America.

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Imprint	Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Year	2013

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Width	21 mm
Height	198 mm
Length	129 mm
Weight	245 gr

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I appreciate silence!

I loved this book! It's all about introverts in a culture that celebrates extroversion. We have a personality worshiping culture and the new social media has only made it worse. Everyone on Facebook is a performer. Despite 1/3 to 1/2 of the population being introverts, everything in our culture from parenting to school to work to socializing celebrates and rewards extroversion. Some of the most creative and brilliant creators and thinkers in history were introverts. The theme of this work is ...

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Amazing book!

This is one of the best books that I've read, and hats off to Susan Cain for this amazing work. The book talks talks about introversion in detail and the various behaviors and tendencies of introverts and what they seek. Susan, herself an introvert, is able to easily put the reader at ease, especially an introverted one. Quiet talks about the role an introvert can play in a world that is increasingly tending to overvalue to extroverted ideals, and this is why the book is extremely relevant. E...

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Quietly making Noise!

This book found its way to my library through a chance introduction to this book in the authors' TED talk.

It suits my temperament to read/write than to speak and this book attempts to explain why is this so. This the author does it with relevant research studies and examples and is impressive for comprehensiveness if not for thoroughness (of course, one would not expect this in this genre - popularization).

It is a great read to all introverts and extroverts. One thing I noticed was that...

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Masterpiece on this subject: Kudos to the author

First of all I would like to salute the author for the kind of research she has done to come up with such a masterpiece. Not only she has provided enough research references to make her point but at the same time she has taken care that the message is being delivered to the readers without writing anything wrong about being extroverts/introverts. . She has handled the subject very beautifully and has explained both temperaments the best way..

One thing I want to clarify is that the book is no...

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I Love Susan Cain

Now unfortunately Susan is quite elder to me (merely 27 years old) and happily married. Psst! BANG! I love her because I am a 19 year old and she has helped me to realize who I am, just like millions of us, the introverts.

Okay, now for the sake of being unbiased as this is a review, let's talk business. Quiet is a non-fiction book focusing on how the mankind inadvertently (or maybe advertently) discriminates the introverts. Susan has carefully researched introversion and extroversion, touri...

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Helps to realize the power of being Quiet!

On reading this book I did not find whether it favors Introverts or criticizes the Extroverts. It basically talks about the strength of the quite character which is generally misunderstood or side lined by the dominant extrovert characters in the society. Through various examples, especially the first one, it compels the reader to understand the power of the quite person through few but very strong words of expression. For me this book is more accurate one to use my quietness in a more approp...

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A book which makes introverts feel less alone...

QUIET is a must read for anyone who wonders why the world doesn't listen to them, though what they say generally ends up being right!

Introverts are more conflicted than extroverts; the former feeling many a times that something is fundamentally wrong with their attitude. QUIET helps introverts understand they are not alone; in fact, if anything, they are more gifted at solving problems and being creative. She goes on to point out how many famous & successful personalities (Steve Wozniak, Gu...

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The Book is in great condition but the packing I'm not happy with it i mean for 300 it doesn't look great

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Amazing book!!!!

Excellent work by Susan Cain.
This book very well explains that introverts are no less than extroverts.The author has proved each and every quality of introverts by taking suitable examples.

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Give insight of yourself!

Written in perfect way. Examples which have been included are perfectly resemble with the topic.Some of you will start looking at people with new eyes, if you thoroughly understand the book. Do not expect so much interesting, but nicely written so you will not be bored.And obviously get it at your doorstep with flipkart delivery( discount is certain:P).

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A:The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. ... That fact is whether we're an introvert or an extrovert. The introvert/extrovert divide is the most fundamental dimension of personality

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#1 NYT bestselling author. Unlikely award-winning speaker. Seeker of kindred spirits.Welcome to the world of QUIET and BITTERSWEET

An exploration of the power of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook on life, and why our culture has been so blind to its value.

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Susan Cain’s Bittersweet grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go. I’ve thought about the depth and beauty in Cain’s research and storytelling every day since I finished the book. I will always be grateful for how much Quiet and Bittersweet have helped me understand myself and how I engage with the world.

– Brené Brown, Ph.D., author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Atlas of the Heart

A decade ago, I found myself inside Quiet. With Bittersweet, Susan Cain has described and validated my existence once again! Her new book reaffirms that my constant, achy awareness of life’s brutiful is a way of being shared across the ages with artists, healers, and anyone who pays deep attention. I’ll place Bittersweet in the hands of all my feely, achy, beautiful friends.

– Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed and founder and president of Together Rising

This is the rare book that doesn’t just open your eyes—it touches your heart and sings to your soul. Susan Cain gave a voice to introverts, and now she masterfully paints our heaviest emotions in a light that’s long overdue. Bittersweet is the perfect cure for toxic positivity and a sparkling ode to the beauty of the human condition.

– Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

Bittersweet is astonishing: one of the most gracefully written, palpably human books I've read in years.

– Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of DRIVE

This book is an absolute triumph: it's for anyone who has ever really lived, loved, or lost.

– Greg McKeown, New York Times bestselling author of Effortless

Bittersweet is an incredibly uplifting book—transcendent even.

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In a profound new book set to be as influential as Quiet, Cain ... argues that recognising the value of the “bittersweet”—that is, learning to weather times of pain and loss is powerful and vital.

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An antidote for our uncertain times and a toolbox for using angst and yearning as a means of transforming pain into creativity, transcendence, and love.

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An original and contrarian thinker, Susan Cain compellingly argues that the messier parts of life might indirectly lead us to the most rewarding parts of it.

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Bittersweet is a beautiful read in its entirety.

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Susan Cain finds what is undervalued, quiet, and precious. In Bittersweet she takes you to a room in your own heart full of treasures that you had forgotten about. This is a book to read, feel, and savor

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Bittersweet...resists classification, hovering like a butterfly between poetic mysticism and social psychology, as it dips into philosophy and Buddhism in search of the correlation between beauty and sadness.”

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Introverts. How to use your personality traits

To all my family members

A nation in which everyone was General Patton would do no more than a nation in which everyone was Vincent van Gogh. I prefer to think that our planet needs athletes, philosophers, sex symbols, artists, scientists in equal measure; there is a role for sympathetic and callous, rational and easily vulnerable people. The world needs those who will devote their lives to studying the specifics of the salivary glands in dogs, as well as those who can capture the brief moment of cherry blossom in a poem of fourteen syllables, or devote twenty-five pages to describing the feelings of a little boy lying in the silence of the night on his bed in waiting for a mother's kiss before bed.

The presence of any pronounced talent indicates that something has been sacrificed…

Allan Sean

From the author

Formally, I have been working on this book since 2005, but, in fact, all my life. I have spoken and corresponded with hundreds, if not thousands, of people discussing the issues presented in the book, and have read countless books, academic and journal articles, forums, and blogs. Some authors I quote verbatim, the thoughts of the rest permeate every sentence in this book.

The book "stands on the shoulders" of many people, mostly scientists and researchers, whose work has taught me a lot. In an ideal world, I would list each and every one of those who helped me and shared knowledge. But, to protect the reader from an endless stream of names, some authors are only mentioned in the "Notes" section.

For the same reason, I sometimes omitted quotes when quoting other people, but at the same time I watched carefully so that new words did not distort the meaning invested in them by the author. If you want to get acquainted with the original of this or that idea, you can find a detailed list in the "Notes" section.

I have changed the names and physical descriptions of several of the people whose stories I include here, as well as stories from my own legal practice. In order not to intrude on the privacy of the participants in Charles di Cano's seminars, who did not at all expect that they would become characters in the book by signing up for courses; the history of my first seminar is a composition of general impressions for the whole time of training. The same goes for the story of Greg and Emily, which is compiled from interviews with many couples. In view of the imperfection of my memory, many stories are given in the form in which I remembered them. It should also be said that I did not check their authenticity, placing in the book only those that seemed plausible to me.

Introduction

Poles of Temperament{1}

Montgomery, Alabama. The first of December 1955 {2}. Early evening. A city bus stops and a modestly dressed woman in her forties gets on. Her posture is upright, despite spending all day hunched over an ironing board in the laundry room basement of a local department store. Her legs are swollen, her shoulders ache with fatigue. She sits in the front row of the "color" section[1] and calmly watches as the bus is filled with passengers. This continues until the driver asks her to make room for a white passenger.

A woman utters a single word that will later give birth to one of the most important civil rights movements of the twentieth century—a word that will put America on the path of moral renewal.

This word is no.

Driver threatens to arrest her.

"You can do it," says Rosa Parks.

A policeman arrives. He asks Parks why she refused to give up her seat.

— Why do you keep telling us where it is? she simply replies.

— I have no idea, — he says, — but — the law is the law! - you are under arrest.

On the day of her trial, she is found guilty of misconduct and convicted. Following the sentencing, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Montgomery holds a pro-Parks rally at the Holt Street Baptist Church in the city's poorest neighborhood. Five thousand people gathered to express their support for this woman's lonely act of courage. They squeeze into the church until all the pews are occupied. The rest have to wait outside and listen to the PA systems. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd. “There comes a time when people get tired. We are gathered here tonight to tell those who have treated us so badly for so long that our patience has run out. We are tired of segregation and humiliation, we are tired of the iron fists of the oppressors.

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Public transport seats reserved for people of other races. A common practice for the southern US states of those years, part of the segregation policy. Note. ed.

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Cit. by Miller W. Martin Luther King Jr. Life, suffering and greatness. - Text, 2004. Approx. ed.

Susan Cain: the power of introverts - Ideonomics - Smart about the essentials

Susan Kane Self Development

When I was 9 years old, I went to summer camp for the first time. My mother packed a suitcase full of books for me, which was completely natural for me. All members of our family, gathering together, immersed themselves in reading. This can be perceived as a reluctance to communicate, but for us it was just communication. You are in a warm circle of relatives sitting very close to you, but at the same time you are freely wandering around the country of your imagination. And I imagined that the camp would be even better. I imagined 10 girls in identical nightgowns reading books, sitting comfortably in their house.

The camp turned out to be more like a beer party without strong drinks. On the very first day, the counselor gathered us all and made us learn the cry, which we had to repeat every day until the end of the summer, in order to instill in us the camp spirit. The cry was: “Be-U-eN-Y-ie, so we write violent. Raging, rowdy, we're rowdy now." Here. I could not understand why it was necessary to be so violent, and why it was necessary to distort this word. But I screamed along with everyone. I tried my best and just waited for the moment when I could go read.

When I finally managed to get a book, the coolest girl came up to me and asked: “Why are you so quiet?” "Quiet" is, of course, the complete opposite of Bae-U-eN-S-ie. And the next time I tried to read, a worried counselor came up to me and repeated about the camp spirit. She said that we should all try to be as social as possible.

I put my books back in my suitcase and put them under my bed, where they lay for the rest of the summer. But I was haunted by guilt. It seemed to me that the books needed me, that they called me, and I betrayed them. But I still betrayed them, and did not open the suitcase again until returning home at the end of the summer.

I'm telling you about the summer camp, but I could tell 50 other similar stories - about each situation where they made me understand that my calm and withdrawn lifestyle was not quite right, that I needed to change and become an extrovert. Deep down, I always understood that this is wrong, that introverts are beautiful in themselves. However, for years I did not trust my intuition, and, imagine, I even became a lawyer on Wall Street, although my whole life I dreamed of becoming a writer - partly because I wanted to prove to myself that I, too, could be bold and assertive. I went to noisy bars, although I would have preferred to just have a quiet dinner with friends. I broke myself so automatically that I didn’t even notice it.

This is what many introverts do, and this is our loss. But it is also a huge loss for our colleagues and society. And also, sorry for the pathos, for the whole world. Because when it comes to creativity and leadership, we need introverts who do what they do best. 30-50% of the population are introverts - 30-50%. This is every second or third of your acquaintances. Even if you're an extrovert, it's your co-workers, your spouse, your children, and the person sitting next to you who are all treated with a bias that's deeply rooted in our society. We learn this attitude towards them from childhood, although we cannot even say what our mistake is.

To see this bias clearly, you need to understand what introversion is. This is not shyness. Shyness is the fear of social condemnation. Introversion is how a person responds to signals from the external environment, including communication with people. Extroverts need a lot of stimulus, while introverts feel best and work most energetic in quiet, quiet environments. Not always - everything is relative - but in most cases. Therefore, in order to maximize our talents, each of us must be in the most optimal environment for himself.

But here we run into a stereotype. Our most important institutions—schools and workplaces—are built primarily for extroverts and their need for plenty of stimulation. There is also a belief system now that I call the new groupthink. She argues that creativity and productivity are only possible when jobs are tightly clustered.

Imagine an ordinary modern classroom. When I was in school, we sat in rows. The desks were lined up like this, and we did most of the tasks ourselves. But in modern classrooms, desks stand in groups - 4, 5, 6, 7 students sit facing each other and do countless group tasks. Even in mathematics lessons or in essays, where there should be room for their own thoughts, children should behave like members of a commission. Children who prefer to leave the classroom or work alone are often perceived as outcasts, or worse, difficult to educate. Most teachers describe the ideal student as an extrovert, not an introvert, despite the fact that introverts are better learners and more well-read, which is confirmed by various studies.

The same applies to workplaces. Most of us work in open-plan spaces, without walls, and are constantly subjected to clamor and surveillance from colleagues. In the field of leadership, introverts rarely get leadership positions, despite the fact that they are usually thorough and not prone to excessive risk - which today should be strongly supported.

Interesting research by Adam Grant of the Wharton School of Business has shown that introverted leaders often achieve better results than extroverted ones, as they are more able to let the ideas of their subordinates come to fruition, while the extrovert, perhaps unintentionally, gets excited about his own ideas. and alters everything for himself, not giving the proposals of others free play.

Some of the most influential leaders were introverts. For example: Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi - they all described themselves as soft and even shy people. All of them came to the center of public attention in spite of personal motives. This turned out to be especially attractive, since they rose to power not because they were drawn to command, and not because they were admired, but because they saw no other choice and were forced to act for a just cause.

I think it's time to say that I love extroverts. Some of my best friends are extroverts, like my beloved husband. We are all, of course, a little introvert and a little extrovert. Even Carl Jung, the psychologist who first published these terms, said that there are no absolute introverts or absolute extroverts. If they existed, they would have been in a madhouse long ago. Some are right in the middle of the spectrum - between introvert and extrovert, and they are called ambiverts. Sometimes it seems to me that this is the ideal state. Most of us, however, are of one type or another.

I think our society needs more balance, more harmony between these two types. This is especially important for creativity and productivity. When psychologists study the biographies of genius creators, they find that these people exchange ideas with each other and promote them. However, there are many introverted traits in their character.

Loneliness is the main component of creativity. For example, Darwin liked to walk alone in the woods and firmly refused invitations to dinner parties. Theodor Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss, imagined many of his wonderful characters while sitting alone in the bell tower in his backyard in La Jolla, California. He was even afraid of meeting the kids who read his books. He thought that the children imagined him as a sort of good-natured Santa Claus, and did not want to disappoint them with his reserved appearance. Steve Wozniak invented the first Apple computer while sitting alone in his office at Hewlett-Packard, where he worked at the time. According to him, he would never have managed to become such an expert if he had not been such an introvert and a homebody in his youth.

Of course, we should not stop working together - the same Steve Wozniak teamed up with Steve Jobs to found Apple Computer, but being alone is very valuable and for some it is absolutely necessary. People have known for centuries the extraordinary power of solitude. Only recently, oddly enough, we forget about it. In most of the known religions of the world there are seekers of truth - Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed - they alone go to deserted, wild places, where they experience deep revelations and insights, which they then pass on to the peoples. Without nature there is no insight.

No wonder modern psychology interprets the same thing. It turns out that it is impossible to be in a society of people without imitating, instinctively, the opinion of the majority. You will be drawn to misbehaving even in purely personal affections and inclinations, and you will begin to copy others without even realizing it.

Collectives are known to be influenced by the most representative or charming person present, despite the fact that the relationship between eloquence and the value of ideas is zero - ZERO. So... Maybe you go with the leader with the best plan, maybe you don't. Are you willing to take a chance? It would be better for everyone to disperse, think with their own minds away from the influence of the group, and then get together and discuss ideas together in a calm atmosphere, and then draw conclusions.

If everything is so logical, why are we still wrong? Why are our schools and workplaces the way they are? Why do we judge introverts when they seek to be alone for a while? One answer can be drawn from the depths of our history. Western societies, especially the United States, have always preferred the acting man to the thoughtful man, especially the thoughtful man. At the beginning of American history, the character of the leader was given great importance, and we valued people with a rich inner world and high morals. If we look at the personal development books of the time, we see titles like, "Character is the greatest thing in the world." These books set as an example people like Abraham Lincoln, who was famous for his modesty and unpretentiousness. Ralph Waldo Emerson called him "a man who takes no offense at the superiority of others".

But then the 20th century came and we had a new culture that historians have called "the culture of the individual." The main change was the transition from the agricultural economy to the world of big business. People suddenly had to move from small towns to big ones. Instead of working alongside those they have known all their lives, people had to fight for their place under the sun in a crowd of strangers. Therefore, it is quite reasonable that charm and charisma have become new important qualities for life. Since then, personal development books have changed, with titles like How to Win Friends and Influence People that use successful salespeople as an example. This is the world we now live in. This is our cultural heritage.

This does not mean that communication skills are completely unnecessary. I am not advocating that you completely abandon teamwork. The same religions whose sages went to lonely mountain peaks also teach us love and trust. The problems in science and economics that the modern world is facing today are so vast and complex that we need to bring together many people and solve them together. But if we give introverts the freedom to be themselves, they are more likely to be able to come up with their own unique solutions to these problems.

And now I want to show you what is in my suitcase today. What is there? Books. I have a suitcase full of books. Here's "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood. Here is a novel by Milan Kundera. This is Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. But these are not really my books. I took them with me because they were written by my grandfather's favorite writers.

My grandfather was a rabbi. He was a widower and lived alone in a small Brooklyn apartment. As a child, his apartment was my favorite place in the world. Partly because the atmosphere in it was very soft and unobtrusive, like the character of my grandfather, and partly because it was filled with books. Every table and chair in this apartment had lost its original purpose and now served as a surface for swaying stacks of books. Reading was my grandfather's favorite pastime, as well as all the other members of the family.

He also loved his parishioners very much, this love was felt in the sermons that he delivered every week for 62 years of his ministry. From each book he read, he extracted many thoughts and wove intricate fabrics from them, relying on the wisdom of the ancients and classics. People came from all over the area to listen to him.

But the peculiarity of my grandfather's character was that despite his important rank, he was a very modest and reserved person. When he delivered sermons, it was hard for him to look into the eyes of his regular parishioners, before whom he spoke for 62 years in a row. Even outside the pulpit, when he was called to say hello, he often cut off the conversation, afraid to take too much time from the interlocutor. But when he died at the age of 94 years, the police had to block the streets of the area where he lived to let the crowd of people who came to mourn his death pass. Now I try to take an example from my grandfather and apply his lifestyle to my own.

Recently, my book about introversion, which I have been writing for 7 years, has been published. For me, these 7 years were years of absolute bliss because I read, wrote, thought, researched. I, like my grandfather, sat alone, surrounded by books. But now I have a completely different job. I need to get on stage and talk about it. Talk about introversion. This is much more difficult for me, because even though it’s a great honor for me to perform in front of you now, it’s not at all what I’m used to.

That's why I do my best to prepare for performances like this. Last year, I studied public speaking at every opportunity. I called this year "The Year of Risky Talk". This helped me a lot. And this skill helped me to strengthen my common sense, beliefs and hope that society's attitude towards introversion, silence and solitude will soon change dramatically. I'm sure about it. If you share my views, then in the end I would like to give you 3 guidelines for action.

First, stop torturing people with constant team work. Just stop it and that's it. Thank you. I want to clarify my point. I strongly believe that workplaces should encourage an easy and casual style of communication - where people just get together and exchange good ideas that come to their mind. This is a great solution for both introverts and extroverts. But we need more respect for privacy, more freedom and autonomy in the workplace. The same is true at school. Of course, we need to teach children to work together, but we also need to teach them to work independently. For extroverted children, this skill is especially important. They need to learn how to work on their own, because in this way they will learn to think and penetrate into the essence of things.

Second: be alone with nature. Be like the Buddha and you will have your own revelations. I’m not talking about the fact that we all need to renounce the world now, build a hut in the forest and never communicate with each other again, but that we should disconnect from the outside world more often and immerse ourselves in our own thoughts.

Third: take a good look at the contents of your suitcase and remember why you put these things there. Extroverts, your suitcases may be full of books too. Maybe there are champagne glasses or diving equipment. Whatever lies there, I hope that you will take it out at every opportunity and give us your energy and joy.

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