Quiet

I'm reading Susan Cain's Quiet. Very, very thought provoking. After spending the best part of my life in an environment where selling yourself was the be all and end all, it's shocking to realise how uninclusive, as a society, we've become. Everyone seems to be either talking themselves up or talking others down. Are we really so insecure as a society? We talk about diversity and inclusivity but do we really look to include the guy who sits in the corner working away and who gets pretty tongue tied when you ask him to explain his rationale? The book asks some telling questions about how we behave ourselves and to others. In the first 50 pages, she manages to diss both Harvard Business School and Dale Carnegie for championing gregariousness and falsehood, so that's going some. It's well worth a look - thought provoking and a good read. Now I must go practice that speech in the mirror. Neil Young's No Wonder is playing....somehow apt.

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