{"id":15257,"date":"2012-03-16T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=15257"},"modified":"2012-03-09T14:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T20:26:58","slug":"shhhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/shhhh\/","title":{"rendered":"Shhhh&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Quiet-shy1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15298\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Quiet-shy1.jpg?resize=300%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Quiet-shy1.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Quiet-shy1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It is inevitable that librarians would jump on <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=16.1033.0.0.1&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=quiet%20cain&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=bks&amp;query=&amp;page=0#__pos1\" target=\"_blank\">Quiet<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Susan Cain. This bestseller traces the role of introverts in American society.\u00a0Having\u00a0a good character and reputation was once\u00a0the highest goal one could aspire to. That is, until the cult of personality gradually began to take over\u00a0 &#8211; with the rise of Dale Carnegie and commercial advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>The book (and <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=16.1033.0.0.1&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=quiet%20cain&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=nsr&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\">audiobook<\/a><\/em><\/strong>)\u00a0is an empowering treatise for those who have grown up with teachers, relatives and strangers criticizing the natural tendencies of the non-extrovert.<\/p>\n<p>Cain says\u00a0their reserve and solitary nature are qualities\u00a0that brand them as those\u00a0possessing \u00a0&#8220;a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.&#8221;\u00a0It turns out that these are actually strengths, and they should be celebrated, rather than be regarded with suspician. Introverts have the ability to concentrate for long periods of time, making them good inventors, researchers, musicians, scientists and writers.<\/p>\n<p>The American Library Association blog, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/shelfrenewal.booklistonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shelf Renewal<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, blogged about Cain recently. In the post, <em>Introverts Rising<\/em>, they categorize literature&#8217;s most famous characters as either introverts or extroverts. (Howard Roark is an introvert; Tom Sawyer is\u00a0the ultimate\u00a0extrovert).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is inevitable that librarians would jump on Quiet by Susan Cain. This bestseller traces the role of introverts in American society.\u00a0Having\u00a0a good character and reputation was once\u00a0the highest goal one could aspire to. That is, until the cult of personality gradually began to take over\u00a0 &#8211; with the rise<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/shhhh\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,10,1],"tags":[1880,1881,1878,1879],"class_list":["post-15257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-reference","tag-introverts","tag-introverts-are-better","tag-quiet","tag-shy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sd0CXx-shhhh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15257"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15310,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257\/revisions\/15310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}