Susan Cain
Susan Cain
Susan Cain
SUSAN CAIN
Background:
Susan Horowitz Cain is a writer whose work on introversion and shyness has appeared in the New York Times, Time, O Magazine, and
PsychologyToday.com. She has taught negotiation skills at corporations, law firms, and universities and practiced corporate law for seven years.
Recently she was selected to speak at the TED2012 conference in Long Beach, her most famous book is “Quite”: The power of introvert in the world
that can’t stop talking.
Qualities:
is the start with the point and then give evidence. Her second idea of communication is more appealing
Susan Cain grew up a thoughtful, reflective person in a society that exalts the “Culture of Personality.” She always felt a sense of friction she couldn’t
quite identify. Yet she succeeded in the extrovert’s world despite that friction, graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Law School and
building a career as a Wall Street attorney.
So she embarked on an ambitious project researching and writing about this “thing” that defines between one in two and one in three of us. She
discovered along the way that introversion has physiological markers that date back to infancy and that introverts offer important contributions to
leadership, creativity, and innovation.
Her TED Talk on “The Power of Introverts,” one of the most watched in the series, with more than 23 million views and counting. Her training as a
sheep in wolf’s clothing helped her reinvent herself (again) as an acclaimed researcher, author, speaker, and now “Quiet Revolutionary.”
Cain makes an important point that many of our environments, social structures and workplaces are unsuited to “introverts” (and possibly even humans
in general). We could design more productive and inclusive workplaces, schools and organizations if we considered the spectrum of personality types
who will work, live and learn in them.
is the start with the point and then give evidence. Her second idea of communication is more appealing
is the start with the point and then give evidence. Her second idea of communication is more appealing
is the start with the point and then give evidence. Her second idea of communication is more appealing
is the start with the point and then give evidence. Her second idea of communication is more appealing