Quiet By Susan Cain Summary

In Susan Cain’s book Quiet, The Power Of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, she writes about extroverts and introverts and their roles in our society. She gives real world stories of how introverted and extroverted individuals become successful. In Chapter one, “How Extroversion Became The Cultural Ideal”, Cain states how being an extrovert increased throughout the 20th century. For example, extroversion started showing up in schools, such as extracurricular activities, which favor kids who are extroverts. While writing this chapter, she did well adding emotional appeal through the story stories she told. Cain also did well using logical appeal, ethical appeal, stakeholders, and her values. Susan Cain explains to her audience that although introversion gained a negative stigma with people, anyone has the ability to achieve the same amount of success. When it comes to emotional appeal Susan Cain always does well with the stories she uses to gain the attention of her audience.

He was around more people, which Cain basically states later in the chapter that living in cities during the early 1900’s showed more extroverted characteristics, this allowed him to talk more and get more comfortable with being more outgoing. She also gives the percentage of city population throughout America’s history, it starts out small them drastically increases, almost like saying that the population of extroverts is becoming greater than introverts. Claiming that by living in a city one is more extroverted. She also gives a story about an introverted women who lied to a crowd of people about how she was an opera singer to become more liked in her work place. So in order to get ahead in life you must sometimes bend the truth to gain more