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Susan Cain’s bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking was recently voted as Goodreads’ Best Nonfiction Book of 2012. Congratulations Susan!
Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, the instant New York Times bestseller, was recently named the #1 business book of 2012 by Fast Company. Her TED Talk, found HERE, has already garnered over 3.2 million views.
Susan Cain’s TED Talk has now reached an amazing 3 million views. If you haven’t seen the Quiet author’s talk yet, do yourself a favor and take the 20 minutes.
Author Gretchen Rubin, in an interview with Quiet: The Power of Introverts author Susan Cain. In her book, Cain argues not only that introverted traits are sorely under appreciated, but that most people fall somewhere on a sliding scale between introvert and extrovert.
Susan Cain, Lavin speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, talking to the Financial Post.
Today in the New York Times, Susan Cain, the bestselling author of Quiet and a self-confessed introvert, writes about how she prepared for her 2012 TED Talk, which drew a standing ovation: “I talked about my lifelong fear of public speaking, and about how I’d spent a year training in the style of a marathon runner to be the best and bravest speaker I could.”
Introversion meets truthiness! Susan Cain, the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, will visit the Colbert Report this Thursday. An instant New York Times bestseller, Cain’s book examines the important but undervalued contributions of introverts, who make up a third of our population. Cain is an introvert herself. Stephen Colbert—or at least the “Colbert” character—is one of America’s more famous extroverts.
Lavin’s Susan Cain is featured in this week’s Time cover story on shyness—and for good reason! Her book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, will debut at #4 on The New York Times bestseller list this weekend. Susan’s book is a rebuff to the Extrovert Ideal, and a manifesto for the under-utilized strengths of the quieter third of the population.
Here’s Susan Cain in New York City, filming the trailer for her upcoming book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, the first major mainstream work on introversion. Though initially hesitant to actually star in the mini-movie, Cain, an introvert herself, finally relented: “I’ll stand in any spotlight for the sake of the Quiet Revolution. I’m already doing a ton of public speaking. Why not movie-making?” Quiet is out in January. An advanced review, in Kirkus, called it, “An intriguing and potentially life-altering examination of the human psyche that is sure to benefit both introverts and extroverts alike.”
Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won’t Stop Talking, on the Diane Rehm show on NPR, talking about being an introvert and working in law.