A study about the strengths of introverts all around us, the book Quiet Power by Susan Cain is an analysis that talks about the effect of “loners” of the world. The book takes on an informational style to describe her experience being an introvert. In addition to this, the author has also interviewed other people to let us know more about how these people behave in their quiet lives.

I find this book quite interesting and found it easier to understand as I took some notes and did some brainstorming.??

At the beginning of the book, I came across the main idea that Introverts were being overlooked by society. As you can see, I also started a reading schedule to make sure I could keep up with the team to finish the book within the time frame that was given.

After reading a little bit the author started to talk about the interviews and stories about people around the world, so I made a mind map combining some of the aspects of the main idea that appeared. I also used some quotes to link the main idea to the book, making the points clear.

After organizing my notes, my classmates gave me some suggestions to improve my notes, not just pack them into one large page and with no exact direction, I took up some of the tips during class on what a page of good notes looks like, and it was massively reduced to about 2/9 of a page, which made it very straight forward and easy to understand. This is what it looks like:

From this page, we can not only see that the notes have been shortened and there is a small mind map, I also asked myself some questions to let me brainstorm more ideas to add in addition to what I have so far, like examining more closely at a sophisticated part in the book or finding a deeper meaning to what the book is talking about. At this point, I’ve realized that the central idea that this book revolves around is that introverts also have their own special abilities and benefits, it’s just that society doesn’t view introversion as something that should be idolized.

In chapter 4, what I found very interesting was that the author wrote about many examples of introverts, especially when they are in leadership. It shows how introverts gain confidence through different strategies, and if we meet a shy introvert, sometimes we just need to give them a small push to get them going! Furthermore, reading through this, I found a very good argument and used it in our class debate. =)

This page helped me a lot with my debate since the mind map also had a lot of connections that benefit me to keep talking, also guiding me to talk about the connecting main idea.

At last, we have come to the end of my notebook analysis on the book Quiet Power by Susan Cain, and I really recommend reading this book if you have trouble finding your time to speak in class, or even if you want to understand more about introverts. I hope you can take a look at this book soon!