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The Introvert Advantage
Dec. 23rd, 2007 08:26 amAh, Christmas holidays, what better time to curl up with a big stack of books? And I have a lot of them to get through! I got The Introvert Advantage
from the library after finding it on an aimless search on Amazon. It is somewhat misnamed - it doesn't really explicitly state what the introvert advantage is, but then I realized that the book is the advantage. Go figure, it confused a lot of people on Amazon too, particularly because one third of the book is spent on discussing how to be more extroverted. This is the kind of advice book where you have to take what you want from it and leave the rest, especially given the author's very cutesy style. The first few chapters didn't interest me, and they were actually repetitive, but the chapters on maintaining energy, working and socializing were. For example, there's a big list of questions that can be used to maintain and sustain conversations, how to talk to extroverts ;-) and guidelines for setting personal boundaries when other people are too demanding. There's something that bugs me about this book though, and I can't quite put my finger on it. There are times when the author is extremely insightful, but other times very rigid in her thinking, and even sometimes bordering on the silly Introverts are supposed to feel colder and are 'territorial'. I have a hard time taking that seriously :-)
from the library after finding it on an aimless search on Amazon. It is somewhat misnamed - it doesn't really explicitly state what the introvert advantage is, but then I realized that the book is the advantage. Go figure, it confused a lot of people on Amazon too, particularly because one third of the book is spent on discussing how to be more extroverted. This is the kind of advice book where you have to take what you want from it and leave the rest, especially given the author's very cutesy style. The first few chapters didn't interest me, and they were actually repetitive, but the chapters on maintaining energy, working and socializing were. For example, there's a big list of questions that can be used to maintain and sustain conversations, how to talk to extroverts ;-) and guidelines for setting personal boundaries when other people are too demanding. There's something that bugs me about this book though, and I can't quite put my finger on it. There are times when the author is extremely insightful, but other times very rigid in her thinking, and even sometimes bordering on the silly Introverts are supposed to feel colder and are 'territorial'. I have a hard time taking that seriously :-)
