Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength – Second Edition    Compare

Table of Contents/ List of Topics Covered:

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction
- America the Extroverted
- Introversion for All – or None
- The Big Lie
- Reviving Your Introversion
- What’s Inside
- Introvert Voices

Part I: Antisocial, Weird, or Displaced?

Chapter 1: The Mistaken Identity
- The Opposite of Social Is Not Antisocial
- The Opposite of Social Is Not Introverted
- We Are Not Snobs
- Introversion Is Not a Diagnosis
- The Abandonment of the Internal
- We Are Introverts

Chapter 2: Alone Is Not a Four-Letter Word
- The Culture of More
- The Threat of Solitude
- Introversion Interrupted
- The Fear of Solitude
- The Courage to Be Alone

Chapter 3: Becoming an Alien
- Alien Society or Alien Self?
- Shadow Dwellers: Goths, Geeks, and Fantasy Freaks
- No Place to Hide: The Accessible Introvert
- The Setup
- The Third Option

Chapter 4: “Anyone Else IN?”
- The Extroversion Assumption
- Finding Introverts
- A New Assumption
- Where the (Inner) Action Is
- My Space in Cyberspace

Chapter 5: The Get-Happier Mandate
- Put on a Happy Face
- Unhappy Pursuit
- The Right to Pursue Answers
- Happy to Fit In
- The “S” Word
- Inventing Depression, Prescribing Happiness
- The Downside of Up
- I’ll Have What I’m Having

Part II: The Introvert’s Wish List

Chapter 6: Meditating with the Majority: The Introverted Society
- Norden: Private and Proud
- Japan: Manners Over Mouth
- Introvertia

Chapter 7: A Room of Your Own
- Your Dream Room
- From Dream to Real
- Room Outside
- Office Space

Chapter 8: The Time to Think
- Time Poverty
- The Ticking Bomb Model
- From Deadline to Birth Time
- Nature’s Rhythm, Society’s Rhythm
- The Rhythm of Introversion

Chapter 9: The Right to Retreat
- What Is a Retreat?
- How Do I Know When to Go?
- A Society in Search of Introversion
- Overruling the Objections
- Retreat Dreams
- Mini-Retreats

Chapter 10: The Freedom of a Flaneur
- The Artist’s Eye
- Among, Yet Alone
- Flaneurie 101
- Your Invisibility Cloak

Chapter 11: Inroads to Intimacy
- Intimacy Through Ideas
- Sticking It Out
- Going Deep

Part III: Standing Still in a Loud World

Chapter 12: The Conversation Conundrum
- The Risk of Playing
- Slowing It Down
- Conversation Preparation
- Music to Our Ears

Chapter 13: The Anti-Party Guide
- “No” Is an Option
- Pros and Cons
- Establishing Your Terms
- Introverting at the Party

Chapter 14: Why Did I Want to Work with People?
- Doing Versus Thinking
- What is Work?
- A Culture of Interruption
- Introvert Exploitation
- Changing Your Mind
- Idea Inc
- Leading, Introvert-Style

Chapter 15: The Downside of Self-Containment
- The Lonely Hearth
- A Limited View
- Self-Reproach
- Stale Air
- Loss of Community

Chapter 16: Showing Up for Relationships
- The Problem of Family
- Introversion and Intimacy
- Loving Our Extroverts
- Relationship Assessment

Part IV: Outing the Introvert

Chapter 17: From Apology to Acceptance – and Beyond
- Apologies, Explanations, and Excuses
- The Place for Apology
- Introvert Integrity

Chapter 18: Celebrating Introversion
- Life in the Dark
- Introverts Are Cool
- Wide Receivers
- The Yin Celebration

Chapter 19: Expressing What’s In There
- Writing It Out
- Beyond Words
- Having the Stage
- Introversion Diversions

Chapter 20: Moshing on Your Own Terms
- Meeting Your Opposite
- Learning from Our Extroverts
- Organic Expansion
- Extroverting for Energy
- The Paradox of the Pit

Chapter 21: Introvert Power
- Tribute to an Introvert
- Meditating in Your Mosh Pit

Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author

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