The Happy Introvert: A Wild and Crazy Guide to Celebrating Your True Self

by Elizabeth Wagele

Book Overview

BE YOURSELF
BE INTROVERTED
BE HAPPY

All your life you've heard the myths . . .
-Introverts are depressed and lonely.
-Introverts wish they were more outgoing.
-Introverts lack self-confidence.

These stereotypes about introverts have been propagated by the people who do all the loud talking--the extroverts. To counter these (and many more) common misconceptions, author Elizabeth Wagele, a self-proclaimed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569755469
• ISBN13: 9781569755464
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Happily recommended

Sing quietly to yourself for joy. In The Happy Introvert, Elizabeth Wagele shows by example the fun an introvert can have. Sly, smart, and elegant cartoons, quotations, research, humor and more gently lead the reader to the realization that alone is not necessarily lonely but just a good place to play. Elizabeth Wagele makes me smile. Now I'm a happy introvert too! Highly recommended for pure delight.

Intuitive and revealing

This book is both charming and educational. I recommend it to anyone curious about how the traits and motives of their friends and non-friends are formed. The author has thoughtfully researched and presented a logical way of comprehending the conflicts of personalities with gentle humor. Elizabeth Wagele's map for self-exploration and understanding is engaging and not at all daunting. She encourages us to embrace and not fear that deep mysterious world we all harbor and to rely upon it as a source of rejuvenation and knowledge. Introverts are too often made to feel socially inadequate and vulnerable. This book is a clear call for both introverts and 'extraverts' to find the simple satisfaction and harmony that abides intuitively within us all.

The Happy Introvert

I highly recommend The Happy Introvert -- it is a great and useful read. The author has a fresh, lively and down to earth way of looking at what it means to be introverted, Her approach serves so many goals: stimulating the creative process, encouraging introspect and self appreciation, enhancing parenting skills and communication, and furthering our empathic understand and sense of humour for our wonderful differences. The Happy Introvert is filled with nuggets of wisdom and insight which can only increase the pleasure and appreciation of our good fortune of being born an introvert. And shed light on our life experiences. One example is the difference in "processing time" needed between introverts and extraverts-- illuminating for me the basis of my general frustration in group discussions. Would that it was required reading for both introverts and extraverts--think of the multitude of miscommunications which could be avoided if each better understood the other's verbal and body language, their needs and world view!!! The many cartoons are a delight, and add a further dimension. I will NEVER again apologize for being introverted.... thank you Ms. Wagele, where ever you are!

"The Happy Introvert" is the Friendliest Book I Have Ever Read

"The Happy Introvert" is the Friendliest Book I Have Ever Read. I feel I've made a new friend and the friend is me. I thought I knew who I was but I was being overly influenced by this extraverted culture we're a part of. This book helped me appreciate the positive sides of myself more by pointing out the many potentials we introverts have. And I thank the book for explaining the neurological basis for introversion and extraversion in a clear and interesting way. I've already used some of her suggestions and found them to be very practical. I had a lot of misconceptions about this subject before I read "The Happy Introvert." The clever cartoons hit the nail on the head. I can't wait for her next book.

A Visual and Intellectual Delight

The title tells it all. The verbal sketches are fine and fun, and the drawings, cartoons, are a pure delight. In short, you don't have to have the stamina of someone who reads Proust or Jung to ride the wave of this wonderful exploration of the inner life of those whom the more "out there" types call introverts. And if you're an extrovert, you'll love to open to a great cartoon and share it with the lady behind you in the checkout line -- or the cashier.