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

man. As a child, he was afraid of
everything: thieves, ghosts, snakes, the
dark, and especially other people. He
buried himself in books and ran home
from school as soon as it was over, for
fear of having to talk to anybody. Even
as a young man, when he was elected
to his first leadership position as a
member of the Executive Committee of
the Vegetarian Society, he attended
every meeting, but was too shy to
speak.
“You talk to me quite all right,” one
of the members asked him, confused,
“but why is it that you never open your
lips at a committee meeting? You are a
drone.” When a political struggle occurred
on the committee, Gandhi had
firm opinions, but was too scared to
voice them. He wrote his thoughts
down, intending to read them aloud at
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