Can any revolution be quiet?

At first, Quiet's thesis seems to be: it's okay to be an introvert. As I made my way through chapter two and into chapter three, though, its thesis shifted to something more forceful: it's better to be an introvert.

This statement simplifies a lot of what Cain writes about, and glosses over her caveats about the importance of context in comparisons of extroverts and introverts, but it keeps coming up. Though, in a chapter about creativity, it's no surprise that solitude (an introvert's number one top sought thing) gets such high praise. Looked at logically, it just makes sense that some of the best ideas are sparked by the maddening crowd (Steve Wozniak's participating in the Homebrew Computer Club), but carried out alone (Wozniak's building the first home computer in early mornings and late nights spent at his desk at Hewlett-Packard).

With all of that said, Cain's Quiet is slowly turning into a paradox for me. What she writes is sound, but at odds with how it's written. The "anecdote-explanation-research" rhythm of her sections keeps things moving at a nice clip and adds some narrative elements to a text that could be much more dense, but it also seems weirdly chatty for a book about introversion. 

The blurbs of praise in the front of the book also seem strange, considering what Quiet is all about. Ultimately, the text over the top of the back of the book, "The Book that Started the Quiet Revolution" nicely summarizes the clash of the blurbs' outspoken nature with the reserved content of the book.