Quiet
Susan Cain on introverts in a culture built for talkers
Cain's 2012 book is about a culture that reads outward confidence as competence, and about what that culture loses when the quieter half of the room looks disengaged. Coverage takes in the biology behind the trait and the history of the extrovert ideal. Also: how introverts handle open-plan offices, group brainstorming and public speaking. Extroverted readers often take more from it than introverts do.
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He has gifted Susan Cain's book more times than he can count, and started out sending it to introverts. The biggest fans, in his experience, turned out to be extroverts realizing what they were missing in the quiet people around them.
Source: The Tim Ferriss Show #399 transcript
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