What. A. Book.
I was fascinated. This book gives me a lot. I am a true introvert and I knew it. But I've never been able to verbalize my feeling and my thought of the issue as exactly and deliberately as the book does. When I bought this book on Amazon, there was a review that literally says, "This Book Saved My Life. Not An Exaggeration.". At first, I thought Nah, that's an exaggeration. But after I've read it, I totally agree with that. It's so special, especially for introverts.
Like, this book explains everything. Everything from why we are introverts, what makes us introverts, when we are doing introverts what's happening in our brain, how to think and confront our introvertedness, and much more. Thank God gives me this book. I love it. Seriously.It's so important to know what makes us and how to live up with our personality.
「This study is very new, and its conclusions still need to be replicated and explored in other contexts. But it echoes Jerome Kagan’s findings that high-reactive first graders spend more time than other children comparing choices when they play matching games or reading unfamiliar words. And it suggests, says Jadzia Jagiellowicz, the lead scientist at Stony Brook, that sensitive types think in an unusually complex fashion. It may also help explain why they’re so bored by small talk. “If you’re thinking in more complicated ways,” she told me, “then talking about the weather or where you went for the holidays is not quite as interesting as talking about values or morality.”」（『Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking』（Susan Cain 著）より）
Holy shit. That's me.
「Some of these twenty-seven attributes were familiar from Kagan and others’ work. For example, highly sensitive people tend to be keen observers who look before they leap. They arrange their lives in ways that limit surprises. They’re often sensitive to sights, sounds, smells, pain, coffee. They have difficulty when being observed (at work, say, or performing at a music recital) or judged for general worthiness (dating, job interviews). But there were also new insights. The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive (just as Aron’s husband had described her). They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions—sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments—both physical and emotional—unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss—another person’s shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly.」（『Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking』（Susan Cain 著）より）
Hold on, do you know me? I have a fear of heights and I basically bored by small talk because of exactly what this book describes. I read the book on Kindle. Kindle can email excerpts that I marked. And these are some of them that I was surprised when I read.It also explains why this happens. A part of our brain called the amygdala has a function to cope with stimulation of the outer world. And people who have the amygdala that reacts to the stimulation highly tend to be introverts. The author says that there are a lot of studies about this. Every chapter in this book is just amazing. I was really fortunate that I can get this book. I think I've has known my personality quite well, but she teaches me a lot. I am no in trouble right now about my personality or something, I just bought it because it has so many reviews (+8000!) and I just wanted to read something in English. But, it's been more than that. The best part of this book is how she explains everything carefully. She is trying to explain every topic as scientifically as possible. She interviewed many researchers on the field and that makes this book so unique and exceptional. I admire this work. Thank you.It's the kind of book that I hope everyone should read in their lifetime. It's literally a life-changing book. My favorite book is still this:
It's my favorite, yes. But I would say "Quite" is the best book of my life. It explains my personality satisfactory well. Like, I want to quote from this book all the time. I'm not that kind of guy who writes a review of a book but this time I write it. This book is HUGE.There's also a TED talk of this author.
And once again I realized I love the way neuroscience solves enigmatic human nature step by step.
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