Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking is best self-help and non-fiction book by Susan Cain, published in 2012.

The book presents a history of how Western culture transformed from a culture of character to a culture of personality. During which an “extrovert ideal” dominates and introversion is viewed as inferior or maybe pathological. Adopting scientific definitions of introversion and extroversion as preferences for various levels of stimulation, Quiet outlines the benefits and drawbacks of every temperament, emphasizing the parable of the extrovert ideal that has dominated within the West since the first twentieth century. You can download from below and buy from amazon if you want.

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