Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

There's a kind of sedimented history of subordination in the case of race that there isn't in the case of introversion.

But, you know, all that said, if we look at introversion, one of my favorite books of all time is Susan Cain's Quiet.

The subtitle is The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

And she talks about how people who are introverts are about one-third, according to our definition of American society, and are constantly being asked to torque themselves to lie down on the Procrustean bed of extroversion.

But yeah, but it took me a while to see that that's actually a strength.

You know, one of the books that I read that really opened my eyes was Susan Cain's book, Quiet.

And, um, it's a book about how, you know, introverts have always been sort of subjugated in society, neglected.

And we were considered the ones who wouldn't really, uh, you know, we weren't the movers and shakers of society.

I felt like I was doing I really understood the domains that I was working in.

And the real life changing moment for me is when my wife handed me this book called Quiet by Susan Cain.

And when I read that book, it was the power of introvert.

It was so life changing for me because I was like, oh, wow, I am not alone.

If you haven't read it, you've heard about.

It's called Quiet.

It has like 25,000 reviews on Amazon.

I've hardly ever seen that many reviews on Amazon.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

She also wrote a book called Quiet Power.

She also wrote a kid's book, it's new, called Lucky and Norman.

This is a fantastic kids book about when we have to say goodbye and the transience in life.

Hmm.

You know, we live in a world where, um, Susan Cain is an old friend of mine, the, the person who wrote the book Quiet, and, you know, which is all about, you know, the power of introverts in, in extrovert world.

And we live in a world where we're often sort of, you know, like whenever the, the topic comes up of your social orientation, you know, we're asked to say, "Are you an introvert? Are you an extrovert? Are you an ambivert?" Now there's outrovert from what I understand also, just non-joiners.

Um, so we look at it as this is just kind of the way that we're wired.