“When I was nine years old, I went off to summer camp for the first time, and my mother packed me a suitcase full of books,” says Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts. “Which – to me – seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do because in my family, reading was the primary group activity. This might sound anti-social to you, but for us it was really just a different of being social. You had the animal warmth of your family sitting right next to you but you were also free to go roaming around the adventure-land inside your own mind. And I had this idea that camp was going to be just like this but better.”
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