Comments by "Yesica1993" (@Yesica1993) on "Сьюзан Кейн: Сила интровертов" video.

Well, clearly she is coming from introvert perspective and is also trying to publicize her book on the subject. But as I said, she celebrates the strengths of both. Her book does as well, and in detail. It's just a matter of understanding various kinds of personalities, so that we can best function together.
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I highly recommend her book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking'. It's very practical! It will help you even more with understanding yourself, understanding others, and even gives helpful tips on how to deal with things and people. I wish this book and this info. had been around when I was a kid!
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Looks like you were watching a different speech than everyone else was watching. Obviously she is an introvert and that is what her book is about, so that is her main focus here. And the truth is that American culture is geared toward extroverts, which is why she's hoping to change things a bit. But if you'd bothered to watch (or at least pay attention) to the very end, you would have seen how she celebrated the strengths of both introverts and extroverts.
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This was so wonderful! How I wish these views/ideas had been around when I was growing up! It would've saved me so much grief and would've helped me so much. I am nearly done with her book and I highly recommend it to everyone.
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As to American culture, it's nothing deliberate. It's just that extroverted people are more of the obvious "leadership" types. (Even if they are not very good in leadership roles.) I think it's just a general default mode. If you talk, you get noticed - whether or not you are saying anything worth hearing. Quiet people are easy to ignore. It does not even have to be deliberate. It's just that it's more challenging to relate to them. That's all she's doing, building bridges.
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I loved the study part, but not the socializing part! It was so difficult for me that I ended up convincing myself that there was just something terribly wrong with me and that's I'd never function in society at all. It was a lie, of course. And school is just a difficult time in general. But if I'd only known that there were other people like me and that most of culture really is geared toward extroverts, it would've helped me greatly. Good luck to you!
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