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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
I might be able to tolerate this being so dated, if the research was a little more rigorous, the delivery more concise and the.. subject matter just more engaging??
For a book based on a topic that is a common social idea rather than a trait with a scientifically agreed upon definition, she does waffle on about it, and give space to some scientists with remarkably odious ideas. Susan, if you know enough to say that a guy's ideas are problematic, then maybe don't quote him?! Eugenics and phrenology are not actually science.
It seems hard to believe that Steve Silverman's Neurotribes was published only three years after this book.
I just get the impression that Susan Cain, despite lived experience of introversion, does not know, or find out enough about her subject of choice to deliver a book with novel insights or pleasingly logical arguments.
Also! if I read one more book this week that quotes T.S. Eliot, I may be forced to go and watch Cats (not the movie! I'm not self-harming.. see! I DNFed a book like an honest to goodness grown up).
For a book based on a topic that is a common social idea rather than a trait with a scientifically agreed upon definition, she does waffle on about it, and give space to some scientists with remarkably odious ideas. Susan, if you know enough to say that a guy's ideas are problematic, then maybe don't quote him?! Eugenics and phrenology are not actually science.
It seems hard to believe that Steve Silverman's Neurotribes was published only three years after this book.
I just get the impression that Susan Cain, despite lived experience of introversion, does not know, or find out enough about her subject of choice to deliver a book with novel insights or pleasingly logical arguments.
Also! if I read one more book this week that quotes T.S. Eliot, I may be forced to go and watch Cats (not the movie! I'm not self-harming.. see! I DNFed a book like an honest to goodness grown up).
informative
slow-paced
It’s a good book. Not that it changed how I view myself, but it helped me to understand myself better.
So, after a while being rather hesitant on deciding whether to read (or not to read) this book, I finally got to read it quite recently.
After the release of this book, there came and spread so many new tidbits and memes about introverts, aside from ones that has been long known, like introverts need to be alone for a while, since introverts charge mentally by being alone, introverts this, introverts that, and so on, tidbits that have already constituted almost the material of the whole book.
After knowing those new tidbits and memes I wondered if reading the book is still a necessary thing to do, and it turned out that it is. The books shows that oftentimes, psychological facts (and social sciences facts in general perhaps?) are relations, not functions, and correlation doesn't always lead to causation, which explains why introverts don't always look like the typical melancholic person, or why extroverts too can be somehow melancholic sometimes, or why introverts too can go gaga and frolicsome, at least once in a long while.
While this book is trying lifting the positive qualities introverts have in social interactions and their unique social interaction pattern that can be advantageous, it isn't doing so to mean that the other type (extroversion) is bad (well, of course notthough sometimes they can be very noisy and nosy oops), it is showing that balance in social interactions is needed, and balance can be achieved together by understanding each person's interaction pattern, and this book can help you to understand that.
After the release of this book, there came and spread so many new tidbits and memes about introverts, aside from ones that has been long known, like introverts need to be alone for a while, since introverts charge mentally by being alone, introverts this, introverts that, and so on, tidbits that have already constituted almost the material of the whole book.
After knowing those new tidbits and memes I wondered if reading the book is still a necessary thing to do, and it turned out that it is. The books shows that oftentimes, psychological facts (and social sciences facts in general perhaps?) are relations, not functions, and correlation doesn't always lead to causation, which explains why introverts don't always look like the typical melancholic person, or why extroverts too can be somehow melancholic sometimes, or why introverts too can go gaga and frolicsome, at least once in a long while.
While this book is trying lifting the positive qualities introverts have in social interactions and their unique social interaction pattern that can be advantageous, it isn't doing so to mean that the other type (extroversion) is bad (well, of course not
This book should probably be required reading for life.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
informative
slow-paced
Was it informative? Yes.
Was it boring? Yes.
Was it boring? Yes.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Quiet gave me a lot to reflect on. There was a lot of interesting history I had previously been unfamiliar with, and some fascinating scientific studies I was excited to learn about. It also provided me with some new ideas on how to communicate with loved ones in new ways when our temperaments may not align precisely.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
inspiring