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The Quiet Life with Susan Cain

Dear You,

Today, I’m featuring a guest post from Grant Snider of

Incidental Comics

, whose work I *adore* (so much so that we’ve actually collaborated on a book project - more about that, below.) I think you’ll love Grant’s work as much as I do.

Here’s Grant:

“My first book illustration job began with this comic:

I drew “We Are the Introverts” in 2012, the same year the landmark book QUIET by Susan Cain was published. I’ve always identified as an introvert, but I never viewed it as a positive characteristic until reading Susan’s work.

As a quiet teenager, I often felt awkward and out of place in social situations. Only later did I realize that everyone else, introvert or not, often feels the same way.

In college a professor wrote in the margins of one of my essays, “You have a lot of good ideas. You should speak up more in class.”

Despite her encouragement, I didn’t.

It wasn’t until my mid-twenties that I emerged from my hermit crab shell and started to share my ideas in the classroom setting. (I spent 10 years in post-high school education pursuing my dental degree and orthodontic certification.)

Now I attend a monthly book club, a writer’s group, and a philosophy/current events discussion group. I imagine my friends in

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Former lawyer Susan Cainleft the corporate grind to pen a book about the flourishing inner life. A self-professed introvert who prefers a quiet one-on-one conversation to a noisy, crowded party, the debut writer presents her research and a rallying call to action in Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. This nonfiction work explains why our culture favors extroverts but insists that introverts shouldn't feel a need to change their basic nature—all personality types have something valuable to contribute in the workplace and communities at large. Cain chatted with Goodreads about embracing her true self, mastering public speaking, and the swelling group of proud introverts she calls the Quiet Revolution.

Goodreads: We asked your readers to submit questions for you and received an outpouring of responses, many of which were personal stories from introverts who feel validated by the message of Quiet.

Susan Cain: Every day is like another dam breaking in my inbox. Every time that someone tells me about their transformation—in their company, organization, or personally—I try to write it down. I have a whole file I keep that I call my Quiet Revolution file.

GR: With a best-selling book and a TED talk that has ratcheted up millions of views

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