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Susan Cain: uncertainty

16 Mar 2025 Lenny's Podcast The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet")

“I took like seven years, and I just sent in a book proposal to my agent two days ago for another book, which will undoubtedly take five, or six, or seven years. And I have wondered how I'm going to do it together with the Substack, but I don't know.”

— Susan Cain

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Susan Cain
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uncertainty
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16 Mar 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…I think it took you seven years to write your first book, is what I read. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then, well my second book was the one for kids, that didn't take quite as long. But then my third book, Bittersweet was the same thing. I took like seven years, and I just sent in a book proposal to my agent two days ago for another book, which will undoubtedly take five, or six, or seven years. And I have wondered how I'm going to do it together with the Substack, but I don't know. I feel very impassioned about both, so I think it's fine. Yeah, you have to really want it. Part of the reason I don't want to do a book is all the talks I have to do to promote it after.…

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