A few months ago, we spun up a Hello Monday community group on LinkedIn. (You can join it here.) When we asked people to introduce themselves by sharing five things not on their LinkedIn profiles, a LOT of community members - more than half - self-identified as introverts. And that made us want to take a closer look at introversion. Enter Susan Cain, author of the longtime best-seller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking and the more recent bestseller, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. In this conversation, Susan and Jessi talk about why it’s so helpful to know where on the introvert-extrovert spectrum you land, how introverts can make the most of today’s office norms, and touch on the connection we all share when we experience the fragility of life.
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