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

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There's a woman named Susan Cain who wrote a book called Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

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There's a woman named Susan Cain who wrote a book called Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

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Today, our guest is none other than Susan Cain, the author of Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, which spent seven years on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over 40 languages.

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I referred to Susan Kane earlier, her book Quiet.

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There are a wonderful book by Susan Cain called Quiet.

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We had Susan Cain who wrote the book about introverts and we just have a society that for years told us that being extrovert was likable and being introverted wasn't.

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Susan Cain, the author of Quiet is with us today to talk about the differences of being an introvert versus an extrovert.

One, you know, reading your book Quiet, it starts off, which was also just really fascinating because you go so much into kind of how we got to where we are in terms of why many introverts feel defensive or don't, you know, will fight that, almost the label of being introverted.

You said something in your book. Is it 50-50 about in terms of people who tend to be more introverted versus extroverted?

There was a section in your book, and I think it's kind of what you're speaking to now, but the need, I don't know, you called it something, but wanting to get rewarded for something and that desire for like an award. It was a story you talked about the stock trader who lost all this money.

You mentioned something in your book about I thought that was really fascinating. And I didn't even think about there was a correlation, but how multitasking is a myth.

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Susan Cain, the author of Quiet is with us today to talk about the differences of being an introvert versus an extrovert, and why our society is the way it is, how it kind of leans to favor extroverts versus introverts.

One, you know, reading your book Quiet, it starts off, which was also just really fascinating because you go so much into kind of how we got to where we are in terms of why many introverts feel defensive or don't, you know, will fight that, almost the label of being introverted.

In your book, Quiet, your TED Talk, really fascinating stuff.

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With Susan Cain, she's like the foremost expert, the author of the book Quiet.

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We're going to discuss introversion, introverts, extroverts. Right. Is it introversion, extroversion? I don't know. Being introverted versus being extroverted and the history behind it. I think you guys will all really enjoy it. I promise that many of you listening will understand yourselves better after listening to that episode.

I'm just finishing up the book, and it's a very fascinating book. I learned a lot about myself.

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with Susan Cain, who is the author of Quiet. It's I feel like it's like the book about being an introvert versus an extrovert out there right now. I'm just finishing up the book, and it's a very fascinating book. I learned a lot about myself.

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Susan Kane, the author of Quiet, who one of the kind of it's the book out there about introverts and extroverts.

interview with Susan Cain, the author of Quiet to talk about more of introversion and extroversion.

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Next week, we have Susan Kane, the author of Quiet, who one of the kind of it's the book out there about introverts and extroverts.

We're having Susan Cain, the author of Quiet, who talks about introversion and extroversion.

Tune in next week for a great interview with Susan Cain, the author of Quiet to talk about more of introversion and extroversion.

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That was in and around the same time that I was reading Susan Cain's book Quiet because Becky Sauerbrunn was also on the team and she's like this raging introvert.

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Susan Cain, I have invited you here to connect our bittersweet pod squatters to the storied tradition of bittersweetness to tell them that they are not alone and that perhaps they were in fact made for just such a time as this.

Is the author of the bestsellers quiet, quiet journal, quiet power, the secret strengths of introverts and quiet the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking.

A lot of people listening discovered Susan from the book Quiet, which was about introverts, which really helped me understand myself deeply.

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I think Susan Cain, who wrote the book on being an introvert, gave a brilliant TED Talk.

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we were like we're not going to write a better book than quiet by Susan Kane about introversion she nailed it but we can write a book about emotions at work and so we started digging into that.

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Susan is perhaps best known for her first book, Quiet, a Monster Best Seller about introverts.

There's actually quite a bit of overlap between her first book and this one.

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And I read Susan Kane's really amazing book I don't know if you've read quite yeah I have read it it's a it's really a terrific book and it gave me actually a lot of teachers say that it's really helped them understand their students because their students which is don't ever speaking class but they're truly listening

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quiet author Susan Cain,

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I found one of the most wonderful books ever written about this was Susan Cain's book Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

Which is a massive bestseller, yes?

Yes, it was the number one New York Times bestseller.

It was a while ago.

2012, I believe.

But she talks about, and this is what I loved about it so much. She talks about the rise of the extrovert ideal and how it's permeated our culture in a way that in her words may be dramatically under values, introverts and what introverts have to offer the world.

And she gave an incredible TED talk on this.

She herself is a lawyer. And this is one of the things I love that she said. She said, I became a Wall Street lawyer of all things instead of the writer that I had always longed to be partly because I needed to prove to myself that I could be bold and assertive too.

I should say that I didn't know Susan when she wrote that book, but I know her now. And she's not kidding when she says she's an introvert.

But the thing that I think my acquaintance with Susan has taught me is that introverts like Susan Cain are not not relationship oriented. It's just that when they relate to other people, they don't necessarily want to do it in quantities and at scales that extroverts are happy with.

So they also want best friends and to share intimacies, but they don't necessarily have this orientation towards what psychologists call sociability, which is just like many people, many conversations going out to the bar after the dinner and then maybe another bar after that.

So Susan Cain is a very relationship oriented person.

But I think that's maybe one of the things that she wanted to correct as a misunderstanding.

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It's not that introverts are misanthropes.

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In fact, she this is one thing that I had not understood before. She talked about the difference between being shy and being an introvert.

And she says that shyness is about fear of social judgment.

But introversion is about how you respond to stimulation, including social stimulation.

And to your point, it's not that introverts don't want social stimulation. It's that they value relationships in a more maybe intimate way rather than this massive group setting.

But it's not the same as being shy.

I wonder again, just going back to what Susan Cain has written on introverts, that if the world is so geared toward extroverts, like in school.

My oldest brother, Peter, said when he read Quiet, Susan Cain's book, these are his exact words. He said, it was the first time I understood myself.

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There's new research, new-ish, from Susan Cain who wrote the book Quiet, that explains why introverts connect better.

Introversion really here what this means is you need me time to recover.

This is Susan Kane's research from her book as well by the way, where introverts aren't people who are socially inept, they're people who need me time to recover, but they actually perceive others better than on the whole, better than extroverts do, because they're paying closer attention.

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There's new research, new-ish from Susan Cain who wrote the book Quiet that explains why introverts connect better.

This is Susan Kane's research from her book as well by the way, where introverts aren't people who are socially inept, they're people who need me-time to recover.

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there's new research new ish from Susan Kane who wrote the book quiet that explains why introverts connect better and I love this because you no longer we no longer as a fellow introvert have a medical excuse to be quiet or not socialize or knocking of talks or not network things like that that introverts supposedly can't do turns out that's just not the case

this is Susan Kane's research from her book as well by the way where introverts aren't people who are socially inept they're people who need me time to recover but they actually perceive others better than on the whole better than extroverts do because they're paying closer attention

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I love her book Quiet about introverts as an introvert myself

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um but I think for me that Olympic moment was really really challenging but it was also an opportunity and I think writing that piece um I did for me I wrote it as a way to process that experience and to understand um what had led up to that moment and also you know you know how I could respond to it um and in some cases there isn't really some triumphant response you kind of just acknowledge process um take the learnings and move forward and that was kind of the first step for me in doing so it was you know writing about the experience sharing it and it was honestly amazing to see the response to that and I think um for me as an athlete of course I love the moments where I have this breakthrough performance and it's an inspiration and it you know shows some people that they could do something they never thought they could do or encourages them to get on the bike um and of course that's like more fun to be in that moment but in this moment I actually got um a much deeper response and a response from a lot of people who I think throughout the pandemic had been dealing with similar uh big challenges and moments of working really hard for something and maybe just not having it come through or work out um and to be honest you know even in the course of my career which is so far I would say like I've had big success in races I've lost farmer races and I won um and I think that's kind of how it goes in life a little bit is you're um trying to learn from and deal with and grow through those challenges to allow you to have your next big win um and so for me that was definitely a pivotal one of those moments and I'm still figuring out kind of the learnings towards the next big win hopefully.

you are obviously one of my favorite authors and I have come back to your books again and again throughout my racing career um and I guess to the overall stope philosophy that they impart in a very relatable way

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking was a monster bestseller; it's in its eighth year on the New York Times bestseller list.

Her viral TED Talk, "The power of introverts," has been seen like 30 million times; it's one of the most popular of all time.

And that book was super influential to me. I love it. I identify as an introvert; it answered a lot of questions for me; it explained some issues I had as a child as well. It's just one of the great sort of classic nonfiction books.