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

But combine that passion for thought
with attention to subtlety—both common
characteristics of introverts—and
you get a very powerful mix. In 1968,
when Gore was a college student at
Harvard, he took a class with an influential
oceanographer who presented
early evidence linking the burning of
fossil fuels with the greenhouse effect.
Gore’s ears perked up.
He tried to tell others what he knew.
But he found that people wouldn’t
listen. It was as if they couldn’t hear
the alarm bells that rang so loudly in
his ears.
“When I went to Congress in the
middle of the 1970s, I helped organize
the first hearings on global warming,”
he recalls in the Oscar-winning movie
An Inconvenient Truth—a film whose
most stirring action scenes involve the
solitary figure of Gore wheeling his
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