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    Celebrating Quiet People: Uplifting Stories for Introverts and Highly Sensitive Persons: Quiet Phoenix, #3
    Celebrating Quiet People: Uplifting Stories for Introverts and Highly Sensitive Persons: Quiet Phoenix, #3
    Celebrating Quiet People: Uplifting Stories for Introverts and Highly Sensitive Persons: Quiet Phoenix, #3
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    Celebrating Quiet People: Uplifting Stories for Introverts and Highly Sensitive Persons: Quiet Phoenix, #3

    By Prasenjeet Kumar

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    Celebrating Quiet People: A unique collection of motivational, inspirational and uplifting TRUE stories for introverts and highly sensitive persons that you shouldn't miss....

    **Now available also in Portuguese, Italian and Spanish**

    From the #1 best-selling author of the "Quiet Phoenix" series of books comes an outstanding collection of biographies and events that guarantee to increase your self-compassion and self-esteem, regardless of your age, gender or status in society.

     These stories tell us about how really famous introverts such as Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, J.K. Rowling and Walt Disney overcame, with steely resolve, the most difficult challenges thrown their way.

    Above all, they highlight the importance of hard work, persistence, self-discipline, and having a vision or a rich imagination which all Quiet persons are fortunately, naturally endowed with.

    The author sincerely hopes that these stories will give you the courage to pursue your dreams and ambitions, regardless of how "outlandish" they may seem to others.

    So what are you waiting for? Scroll up and grab a copy today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublish With Prasen
    Release dateApr 17, 2015
    ISBN9781513047171
    Celebrating Quiet People: Uplifting Stories for Introverts and Highly Sensitive Persons: Quiet Phoenix, #3

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      Celebrating Quiet People - Prasenjeet Kumar

      I: Are Introverts Underperformers?

      MOST SOCIETIES, WHETHER Western or Eastern, value extroversion as an ideal self. Successful personalities are considered to be ‘bold, assertive, those who can take the centre stage and a fellow who is mighty likeable’.

      Introverts are often misunderstood. At home, parents worry if their quiet child is spending too much time in solitude, day dreaming whereas the real world operates through socialising and networking. At school, teachers presume that if a child is hesitant in answering questions, that child must be displaying some kind of learning or social disability. At work, introverts are considered to be not good ‘team players’ and lacking in enthusiasm and initiative.

      In this part, I present a few short stories to dispel this myth and to re-emphasise that introverts are gifted with the strengths of persistence, hard work, creativity, self-discipline, a knack for self-learning, high emotional intelligence and a rich imagination.

      Can you believe that some the most famous personalities of the world were introverts? Not sure. Then browse through the next few pages to find out more.

      True Story of an introvert whose rich imagination took her to phenomenal success

      JOANNE LOVED READING fantasy books as a little girl and even tried writing some short stories. Like a typical introvert, she had a rich imagination. Wizards, magic and sorcery formed part of her world. She thought she should be a novelist. But she came from an impoverished background. Her parents wanted to her to do a vocational course—-a course that would empower her to secure a real job in the real world.

      Your overactive imagination is good for amusing people but not enough to pay for a mortgage or for securing a pension, my little girl, her parents told her.

      Joanne’s parents were being practical. After all, there is nothing noble about poverty.

      Joanne loved her fantasy world. That universe was a part of her. Leaving that world was as traumatic as separating from your loved and dear ones.

      In the university, Joanne’s parents wanted her to do a useful course while she wanted to study English literature. Joanne did not want to upset her parents. So she agreed to pursue a degree in modern languages. However, at the last moment, she enrolled herself in a course in Classics not informing her parents about her sudden change in decision.

      University life was a different world altogether. A world where students were busy attending lectures, seminars and preparing for tutorials. Some worried about their careers after graduation. Some were simply partying and having fun. But Joanne was spending her time mostly in coffee bars writing stories and sometimes not even attending lectures. She was lucky to pass her exams.

      In her mid-20s, she took up secretarial jobs. Then she got married and had a daughter. During lunch sessions, her writing bug did not leave her. Her employers noticed that Joanne was not paying attention to work. As a result, she lost her job numerous times.

      Sadly, Joanne also had a failed marriage. Her world was crashing down all around her. There seemed no hope. She was miserably alone with an exceptionally short-lived marriage, jobless, a lone parent with a daughter to look after, and as poor as it was possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears that her parents nursed about her, and that she had for herself, had come true. She felt as if she was the biggest failure from any standard.

      Joanne even contemplated suicide. There seemed nothing to look forward to in this world.

      However, her daughter was something that made her come down to earth. Abandoning her for escaping from this world was definitely not the right thing to do. 

      Joanne decided to take full control of her life. A lack of success had taught her things that she never knew about herself. Failure made her discover her true self. It gave her an inner security which did not come from passing university examinations. Joanne realised that she had a stronger will and more discipline than she ever thought she had, which are also classic strengths of an introvert. Plus she

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