“Quiet people have the loudest minds”
(Steven Hawking)
American writer, lecturer, author and former lawyer Susan Cain exposes in her speech “The power of introverts” the undervaluation of introverted people in our modern world. Author Susan Cain clarified in her talk, which she held at an official TED conference, that we lived in a society, which praised outgoing, loud and extroverted people and as a result, everything was adapted for their needs.
Susan Cain explained:
“Our most important institutions, our schools and our workplaces, they are designed mostly for extroverts and for extroverts' need for lots of stimulation. And also we have this belief system right now that I call the new groupthink, which holds that all creativity and all productivity comes from a very oddly gregarious place.”
The Author argued that these institutions became different over the years. She used to sit in rows in class and had to do her work by her own. “But nowadays, your typical classroom has pods of desks -- four or five or six or seven kids all facing each other. And kids are working in countless group assignments.”, Mrs Cain said continuing with the statement that the “vast majority of teachers reports believing the ideal …show more content…
Furthermore, she referred to a research by Adam Grant at the Wharton School, which has found that “that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes than extroverts do, because when they are managing proactive employees, they're much more likely to let those employees run with their ideas”. Apart from that, Mrs Cain talked about transformative leaders in history, who had been introverted and quiet people. She named Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks and Gandhi as examples. She said that they had become leaders because they “they had no choice, because they were driven to do what they thought was
(Steven Hawking)
American writer, lecturer, author and former lawyer Susan Cain exposes in her speech “The power of introverts” the undervaluation of introverted people in our modern world. Author Susan Cain clarified in her talk, which she held at an official TED conference, that we lived in a society, which praised outgoing, loud and extroverted people and as a result, everything was adapted for their needs.
Susan Cain explained:
“Our most important institutions, our schools and our workplaces, they are designed mostly for extroverts and for extroverts' need for lots of stimulation. And also we have this belief system right now that I call the new groupthink, which holds that all creativity and all productivity comes from a very oddly gregarious place.”
The Author argued that these institutions became different over the years. She used to sit in rows in class and had to do her work by her own. “But nowadays, your typical classroom has pods of desks -- four or five or six or seven kids all facing each other. And kids are working in countless group assignments.”, Mrs Cain said continuing with the statement that the “vast majority of teachers reports believing the ideal …show more content…
Furthermore, she referred to a research by Adam Grant at the Wharton School, which has found that “that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes than extroverts do, because when they are managing proactive employees, they're much more likely to let those employees run with their ideas”. Apart from that, Mrs Cain talked about transformative leaders in history, who had been introverted and quiet people. She named Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks and Gandhi as examples. She said that they had become leaders because they “they had no choice, because they were driven to do what they thought was