Like A Whole New Mind, You Just Don't Understand, or Stumbling on Happiness, Quiet is a paradigm-shifting book that shows how dramatically our culture has come to misunderstand and undervalue introverts, and gives introverts the tools to take full advantage of their strengths.

Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves. Author Susan Cain charts the rise of "the extrovert ideal" over the 20th century and shows how it has come to permeate our culture?helping to determine everything from how parishioners worship to who excels at Harvard Business School. She also explores cutting-edge research on the biology and psychology of temperament and outlines practical skills that can benefit nearly all of us, including how to network if you hate small talk, how to modulate your personality according to circumstance, and how to empower introverted children.