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Susan Cain

Biography

Susan Cain

Susan Cain started the Quiet Movement, which revolutionized how the world sees introverts --- and how introverts see themselves. She is the author of QUIET: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking and BITTERSWEET: How Longing and Sorrow Make Us Whole. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, and her TED Talk has been viewed more than 40 million times. She was named one of the world’s top 50 Leadership and Management Experts by Inc., and one of LinkedIn’s top 10 influencers.

Susan Cain

Books by Susan Cain

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
by Susan Cain - Nonfiction, Personal Growth, Psychology

With QUIET, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an un­tapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she em­ploys the same mix of research, storytelling and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, con­nection and transcendence. Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain, whether from a death or breakup, addiction or illness. If we don’t acknowledge our own heartache, she says, we can end up inflicting it on others via abuse, domination or neglect. But if we realize that all humans know --- or will know --- loss and suffering, we can turn toward one another.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain - Nonfiction, Psychology, Relationships

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. In QUIET, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so.