Hush puppies?

Sarah Allen  |  Features  |  Secular Shelf Life
Date posted:  1 Feb 2014
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Hush puppies?

QUIET
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t
Stop Talking
By Susan Cain
Penguin.368 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978 0 307 352 156

Do you prefer one-on-one conversations to group activities?

If you answer ‘yes’ to this and 15 other questions at the beginning of Susan Cain’s best-selling book, then you are probably an introvert. Maybe you didn’t need Mrs. Cain to tell you this, but I did and I was genuinely surprised! Then I thought about how my friends and family members would answer the questions, and, another surprise, I reckon that they would all be introverts. Hmmmm…

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