Susan Cain hits a home run with this book. The title of the book is perfect. Introverts around the USA can tell you that the country is set up more and more for extroverts. We can tell you that we are being told to change ourselves. Be more outgoing. Be more social. Work in teams instead of on our own. Etc. Etc. Etc.
It's exhausting to constantly be told to be someone you are not. To feel like you are not whole, good, or living life correctly unless you are (or act like) an extrovert. Introverts are under-valued. And over-looked. And Susan Cain tells how America got to where it is today. Why extroversion has become such a highly valued personality trait. And also why America is getting it wrong. She sites research after research. She gives her own antidotes. She tells stories.
This is not just a book for introverts to feel validated, although it is that. It is a book for extroverts as well. So that they can understand introverts better, but more than that. It's a book about how America can perhaps get back some of its technological, mathematical, business, and economical edge on the world.
Read this book. And I will read it over again and this time, with a pen and highlighter.
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