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A Quiet Life

A Quiet Life

The soft work of not being loud

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Richard Powell
Jun 30, 2025
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In Quiet, Susan Cain explores the strengths and challenges of introverts in a society that elevates extroversion over introversion and puts the goals of the right hemisphere of our brain above those of the left (see Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.) She argues that introverts, who are…

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