December 2018 BOTM: Quiet: The Power of Introverts

[StarMan]

Apologies for us not getting this topic up sooner. I am not online much this month, and the other moderators may be busy with family/holiday stuff this time of year.

With 35% of the votes, our winning Book of the Month for DECEMBER 2018 is:

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


If you'd like to comment on this book, please do so here :)

Description: "At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society... (view spoiler)[

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves." (hide spoiler)]

[Candace]

I read this one already. It's a great selection since many of us in this group are probably INFJs or INFTs. :-)

[Erin]

I read this in January 2017... it was somewhat interesting, but I fall pretty solidly in the middle so it wasn’t particularly relevant to me.

[JJ]

I got the book in the mail a few days ago. I'm looking foreword to reading it. I'll probably end up reading only half of it though. Some of it I'll probably skim read or skip. Like everyone else, I have so many other things that are keeping busy right now during the holiday season.

[JJ]

I've read the introduction and skim read some of it. I am not giving exact details but I'll put it in a spoiler just in case. (view spoiler)[There is a lot of stories of introverts and their strengths that they bring into the places that they work at and so on. There is also a lot of hypothesizing about the the cultural idea of extroversion. I have only skim read some of this but it seems that it's not clear where some of the writers sources are coming from. It appears that some of it is drawn from the writers own opinion. Naturally that opinion would be biased because the writer claims that she is an introvert herself. I did like how the writer opens the book with the civil rights movement and Rosa Parks. That was a great way to open this book. I think that this person is a convincing writer.(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[Allison, Mod Nerd]

I started reading this one months ago and was enjoying it. Haven't finished it but made it to the halfway mark and found it incredibly interesting. Hope everyone who tried it enjoyed it.