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

try to tap into my empathy,” he says. “I
take her tone out of the equation. I take
out the assault on my senses, and I try
to get to what she’s trying to say.”
And what Jennifer is trying to say,
underneath her freight-train words, is
often quite simple: Respect me. Pay attention
to me. Love me.
Greg and Emily now have valuable
insights about how to talk through their
differences. But there’s one more question
they need to answer: Why exactly
do they experience those Friday-night
dinner parties so differently? We know
that Emily’s nervous system probably
goes into overdrive when she enters a
room full of people. And we know that
Greg feels the opposite: propelled toward
people, conversations, events,
anything that gives him that dopaminefueled,
go-for-it sensation that extroverts
crave. But let’s dig a little deeper
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