Quiet is a personal success, health & wellness related book. It is written by Susan Cain. She is an American author and lecturer. Kathe Mazur did the narration of this Quiet book. She did a great job of pacing herself with the content of this book and managed to engage listeners throughout it.
As many as one-third of the people we interact with or know are introverts. Those are the ones who prefer reading to partying, listening to speaking. They create and innovate but they don’t like self-promotion. They usually favor working on their own rather than brainstorming among teams. They are mostly labeled as ‘quiet’ and it is to the introverts to whom we owe a lot of great contributions to society, which range from the sunflowers of van Gogh to the invention of the personal computer.
Impressively researched, passionately argued, and filled with lots of indelible stories of many real individuals. This is the book that shows how dramatically we all tend to undervalue introverts and how much we all lose by doing such a thing. Susan Cain, the author of this book charted the rise of the Extrovert Ideal of the 20th century. She also explored in depth many of its far-reaching effects. She did so by taking her followers from the birthplace of Dale Carnegie to the Harvard Business School, from a seminar of Tony Robbins to an evangelical megachurch.
The most inspiring part of this Quiet book is that Susan Cain introduced us all to some of the most successful introverts which included passionate public speaker and even salesman. Eventually, she shared some powerful advice about how to negotiate differences in a better way when there are extrovert-introvert relationships.
