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This book gets 3.5 stars from me. What I liked about it was it gave me a new way to think about my well-known introvert personality. It helped me understand that introversion as a personality trait is not exactly synonymous with disliking talking to other people and it is different than being shy. Actually, what this book helped me understand is that I am perhaps more purely introverted than I realized because some of the things I thought were exceptions to my introversion actually turn out to be separate facets of personality or else normal features of introverted personality (e.g. I'm not shy and I like interacting with people I know well). This first part of the book explaining what introversion is and isn't was what I appreciated.
The second part of the book is a sort of pep talk explaining why you should be proud to be an introvert. I've always been a proud introvert, so this section of the book did little for me. Part 3 of the book is really just a single chapter aside comparing American and East Asian norms around the introvert/extrovert axis of personality. Part 4 was some self-help type tips for how to navigate life as an introvert. As a self-aware and reasonably successful introvert, pretty much everything she suggested were strategies I've already figured out by trial and error, so not much here to benefit me although it was mildly interesting to hear what I think of as my "social skills" presented as a deliberate strategy for coping with introversion in an extroverted culture.
The second part of the book is a sort of pep talk explaining why you should be proud to be an introvert. I've always been a proud introvert, so this section of the book did little for me. Part 3 of the book is really just a single chapter aside comparing American and East Asian norms around the introvert/extrovert axis of personality. Part 4 was some self-help type tips for how to navigate life as an introvert. As a self-aware and reasonably successful introvert, pretty much everything she suggested were strategies I've already figured out by trial and error, so not much here to benefit me although it was mildly interesting to hear what I think of as my "social skills" presented as a deliberate strategy for coping with introversion in an extroverted culture.