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The Introvert Advantage
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The Introvert Advantage

How to Thrive in an Extrovert World

Marti Olsen Laney
Workman Publishing, 2002

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Look around you: The world was surely made by, and exists for, extroverts. It is loud. It is fast. It values aggression. It rewards push. These are all extrovert characteristics. In such a world, introverts are sojourners. How can these quiet, contemplative, reclusive personalities get by? Learned psychoanalyst and proud introvert Marti Olsen Laney provides some helpful approaches and techniques introverts can use to thrive in an extrovert world. If you are an introvert or want to understand one better, you’ll find Laney’s guidebook for introverts helpful.

Take-Aways

  • Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud believed that introversion is narcissistic and unhealthy.
  • Psychoanalyst Carl Jung believed that people normally are predisposed to introversion or extroversion.
  • Extroverts have been able to fashion the world in their own image because they outnumber introverts by three-to-one.

About the Author

Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D., is a marriage and family therapist and psychoanalyst, as well as an author, teacher and public speaker.

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