Quiet

As an introvert, I had a feeling I was going to enjoy this book. And I was really blown away by how much I did. It's not just because the book is encouraging to introverts for all the ways we feel misunderstood. This book is thoroughly researched yet presented with very approachable writing. Cain mixes individual stories to illuminate with research about the science of temperament and personality. My favorite portion was a chapter that included a longitudinal study of children and their reactions to new stimuli, showing that infants whose brains were highly reactive to news stimuli grew up to have more introverted personalities. In other words, some introversion could be related to one's neurological sensitivity to the world around you. I'm fascinated by these ways our neurology and psychology interact.