Books are the only form of legal addiction. 📚💊 Books: helping introverts avoid conversation since time immemorial. 📚🗣️ Some people have a love story. I have a library. 📚 ️ In this fast-paced digital age, let’s not forget the charm and wit that books offer us. Each ...
The book was at its strongest when it deep-dived on strategies for introverts in common small-business situations, like sales, networking, and public speaking. It made me realize that by reframing these activities in terms of your strengths, you see all sorts of ways that introvert tendencies...
Quiet shows the slow rise of the extrovert ideal for success throughout the 20th century, while making a case for the underappreciated power of introverts and showing up new ways for both forces to cooperate. Why should you read it? There are people in the world who prefer to listen, rathe...
Self-Promotion for Introverts by Nancy Ancowitz Introverts who have had trouble finding their voice in professional settings will find immediate solace in Nancy’s warm, compassionate tone. She talks about how to turn off self-criticism and tune in to self-love, which is a crucial but often-...
Your ability to forge trusting relationships with buyers is the beating heart of your ability to run a thriving consulting business. This doesn’t mean you need to be an extrovert or have world-class people skills. Lots of nerdy introverts, like myself, do it without those qualities. The ri...
It does bring the “sense of place” perspective into the missional conversation, and asks us to re-vision not only what we mean by the local church, and what we mean by the local Kingdom mission, but how that might work out in more authentic relationships as churches overlap, cooperate...
Like in his wonderfully rich book for seekers called The Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life (WaterBrook; $18.99) Guinness helps us chart the journey of our conversation partners, helping them do some ruthlessly honest self appraisal, realizing that signals of ...
“To my mind the basic problem is that writers are by their nature back-room-minded introverts and yet, in the publicity jungle, they find themselves pitted against an army of highly extroverted actors and actresses. I don’t blame promotion people at all for taking the easy path of boosti...