Susan Cain Audio & Video

Millions of people have been empowered by Amy Cuddy's groundbreaking TED talk - the second most-viewed talk in the history of TED - on body language.

Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so.

Susan Cain, bestselling author of "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking," hosts this ten-part weekly series on parenting and teaching introverted children.

Susan Cain is the author of the currently bestselling book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. In this talk she argues that education and business need to allow introverts to be introverts.

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams.

Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of long­ing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute aware­ness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death-bitter and sweet-are forever paired.