The authors whose books get published-once accepted as a reclusive breed-are now vetted by publicists to make sure they’re talk-show-ready. The artists whose work adorns the walls of contemporary museums strike impressive poses at gallery openings. The scientists whose research gets funded often have confident, perhaps overconfident, personalities.
To advance our careers, we’re expected to promote ourselves unabashedly. Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.Įxtroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.Īs adults, many of us work for organizations that insist we work in teams, in offices without walls, for supervisors who value “people skills” above all. Introversion-along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness-is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Here are some of our favorite quotes from the book: The book describes the perception of introverts in various societal contexts, for example, in the workplace, and in relationships. In the course of the book, the author makes us aware of the values society attaches to both personalities and goes on a quest to explain how both types of personalities are formed in humans. The book “ Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking“, by Susan Cain, is an illuminating read on the role and perception of introverts and extroverts in our society.
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