Writer Susan Cain instigates a 'quiet revolution' of introverts

New York

LAST month, 50 executives from General Electric gathered on the fourth floor of a New York office building for a "fireside chat" with Susan Cain, author of the 2012 book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, which has sold two million copies worldwide.

One man asked what advice Cain had for his introverted college-bound daughter. "Take time to find your tribe," she said. "It's a difficult world when the social currency is how gregarious you are." "I'm having my own identity crisis," joked a woman who said she is from a boisterous Italian family, where her introversion is often misunderstood.