Summary Of Susan Cain's Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic
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Susan Cain claims in her article “Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?” that Shyness and being introverted are more and more being treated as diseases. She acknowledges that are distinguishable differences between simply being shy or preferring solitude, to an actual disease or issue that might make a person unable to operate in “normal” circumstances, “But a blurry line divides the two. That while our society generally does look at the extroverts or “rover’s” as the ideal psyche, there are many situations in which being introverted would benefit us or actually provide a better toolkit in dealing with an issue. It is even pointed out that social anxiety did not officially exist until recently. She goes on to say that while there are many cases of