U.S. author
Susan Cain
The most surprising and fascinating thing I learned is that there are “introverts” and “extroverts” throughout the animal kingdom—all the way down to the level of fruit flies!
“The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance,” interview with Gareth Cook, Scientific American, January 24, 2012.
Without introverts, the world would be devoid of:
the theory of gravity
the theory of relativity
W. B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming”
Chopin’s nocturnes
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
Peter Pan
Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm
The Cat in the Hat
Charlie Brown
Schindler’s List, E.T., and Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Google
Harry Potter
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Cant Stop Talking, (New York: Crown, 2012), 5.