quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

population density is correlated with
innovation; despite the advantages of
quiet walks in the woods, people in
crowded cities benefit from the web of
interactions that urban life offers.
I have experienced this phenomenon
personally. When I was getting ready to
write this book, I carefully set up my
home office, complete with uncluttered
desk, file cabinets, free counter space,
and plenty of natural light—and then
felt too cut off from the world to type a
single keystroke there. Instead, I wrote
most of this book on a laptop at my favorite
densely packed neighborhood
café. I did this for exactly the reasons
that champions of the New Groupthink
might suggest: the mere presence of
other people helped my mind to make
associative leaps. The coffee shop was
full of people bent over their own computers,
and if the expressions of rapt
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