Susan Cain: recommendation

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…This point of becoming more of who you are is connected to something that comes up a lot on this podcast of the power of leaning into your strengths, and not trying to focus on your weaknesses, of just becoming more of... Leaning into the things you're good at and doing the things you want to accomplish through that. For example, in my experience, I'm just like... I'm not an amazing speaker, I'm not an amazing person to run meetings, but I'm really good at like after the meeting, here's the doc of the meeting, here's the next step, here's kind of like a-sync followups and stuff like that. And I found the writing let me accomplish all the same things without feeling like, oh, I need to become this amazing presenter. Absolutely. And I would say in addition to that, I don't think that that means that you need to be limited only to writing. Because I mean, even just talking to you for 15 minutes or so, I get a feeling of like, okay, I'm talking to somebody who's extremely authentic, extremely intelligent, extremely knowledgeable, and those are all incredibly powerful traits that modest introverts tend to discount. That's a good pushback and good reminder, but I hear you. Okay, good, good. I want to go back to the tactics you started to share of how to be successful in business as an introvert, because a lot of times companies aren't set up for introverts to thrive. And so I'm curious what either you have done, or what you've seen people do as introverts to set themselves up for more success in a business career.…

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