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A mind forever young / Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. (Isaac Newton as described by William Wordsworth)

Calm yet powerful: explores introversion‘s undervalued strengths, why society celebrates charisma, and how solitude and introspection can fuel creativity and impact. Insightful, validating, and quietly empowering.

An in depth exploration on introversion in a world that currently values extroversion.

This was fascinating! A lot of information, along with personal anecdotes made this an interesting read. I wish I had found this book when I was in high school when I was absolutely convinced I was broken in some way, because I was so introverted. There‘s value in how we see the world. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

This was really interesting. It isn't just a self help book - there's a lot on the science of introversion, and how research suggests that it's hard-wired into people's brains, and telling introverts to 'just be more sociable' is unhelpful and damaging.

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Being an introvert myself, I found some encouraging conclusions in this book.

“Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are."

Was reading this book on my phone. It was slow but had a very interesting premise. However Apple Books decided to remove my download multiple times and I kept losing my page so I‘ve currently given up for now!

“One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You‘re bored. You‘re depressed. You‘re shy. You‘re stuck up. You‘re judgmental. When others can‘t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that‘s true to who we are.”