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

Pearly Gates to look for him. Saint
Peter pointed at a regular-looking Joe.
“That isn’t the greatest of all generals,”
protested the man. “I knew that
person when he lived on Earth, and he
was only a cobbler.”
“I know that,” said Saint Peter, “but
if he had been a general, he would have
been the greatest of them all.”
We should all look out for cobblers
who might have been great generals.
Which means focusing on introverted
children, whose talents are too often
stifled, whether at home, at school, or
on the playground.
Consider this cautionary tale, told to
me by Dr. Jerry Miller, a child psychologist
and the director of the Center for
the Child and the Family at the
University of Michigan. Dr. Miller had a
patient named Ethan, whose parents
brought him for treatment on four
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