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in public or picks up the phone to call a
stranger—but had become more comfortable
speaking up. She believed that
her “quiet traits,” as she called them,
had helped her become editor-in-chief.
For Tiffany, soft power meant listening
attentively, taking thorough notes, and
doing deep research on her interview
subjects before meeting them face-toface.
“This process has contributed to
my success as a journalist,” she wrote
to me. Tiffany had come to embrace the
power of quiet.
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When I first met Mike Wei, the Stanford
student who wished he was as uninhibited
as his classmates, he said that there
was no such thing as a quiet leader.
“How can you let people know you