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. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve
Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society. 

In Quiet, Susan
Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how
much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal
throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to
permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful
introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in
solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps
into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched,
and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.