Introverts Susan Cain Analysis

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Susan Cain does an excellent job of presenting her notion that introverts need the same opportunities to excel as extroverts. Her story about camp, the way young school kids are set-up and the workplace offer insights as to why there is a need to allow students the creativity to develop their own ways. In a extrovert-driven world, she comes close to suggesting that extroverts put pressures on more independent thinkers to be more group-oriented. However, by eliminating some of the independent qualities, these introverts may be losing out on some things that make them happy (and could better advance the world). Using examples like Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, and Gandhi, she explains that these self-defined introverts felt they were needed

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