Lab Girl Susan Cain Analysis

In Hope Jahren’s memoir Lab Girl the author gives the reader the ability to experience everything she had to go through in the process of building herself; giving her strength for her to be able to obtain the career she wanted; like her overcoming multiple sexist boundaries, and emotional blockades. Not only, does Hope Jahren give the readers this experience but so does Susan Cain in her novel Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking; as she walks the reader through the mindset of an introvert’s journey as they must learn to overcome the many hurdles that society has thrown in front of these great minds. In addition, to Jahren and Cain, Shakespeare’s King Lear, Shakespeare gives a different point of view of society’s
People with the ability to think of innovated ideas are often shy because they do not think on the same wavelength as society’s way of thinking, these people are classified as introverts. Introverts are often set aside because of their quiet tendencies. For example, there have been many times that someone has told an introvert that they are not qualified for a certain job because they aren’t “communicative” or are too “shy”. Susan Cain quotes environmentalist Al Gore’s point of view on the benefits of introversion as she states “Gore acknowledges that his skills are not conducive to stumping and speechmaking. “Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that,” he has said. “I draw energy from discussing ideas.” But combine that passion for thought with attention to subtlety—both common characteristics of introverts—and you get a very powerful mix” (Cain 150) Cain’s purpose in showing the reader Gore’s point of view showing the reader that rather than focusing on the attention that you are given focus on the subject at hand. Therefore, taking things one at a time and not focusing on the ego makes the person a much wiser character in any