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  • A Quiet Life in 7 Steps

  • By: Susan Cain
  • Narrated by: Susan Cain
  • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (695 ratings)

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A Quiet Life in 7 Steps

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In a world of distraction, overcommitment, and often overwhelming social expectations, are you craving depth, meaning, and true connection?

Join Susan Cain, an international best-selling author on the power of introverts who will help you tune out all of your everyday stresses and conflicts and tune into living a Quiet Life.

In seven steps, Susan will show you exactly how to lead your own Quiet Life. She’ll help you connect with the part of yourself that’s drawn to the quiet, the deep, the beautiful, and the kind. With the help of carefully selected experts—including poets and sages from across the centuries—she’ll share her very best advice, and give you practical takeaways, exercises, and meditations, all in service of helping you live your truly Quiet Life.

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About the Writer-Susan Cain

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Susan Cain is the author of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. Both books are #1 New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into over 40 languages. Bittersweet was also an Oprah’s Book Club pick, and Quiet was named the #1 best book of the year by Fast Company magazine, which also named Cain one of its Most Creative People in Business. Susan is also the host of the Quiet Life audio series and community.
LinkedIn named Susan the Top 6th Influencer in the World, just behind Richard Branson and Melinda French Gates. Susan partners with Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Dan Pink to curate the Next Big Idea Book Club. They donate all their proceeds to children’s literacy programs.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Her TED talks on the power of introverts and the hidden power of sad songs and rainy days have been viewed over 40 million times.
Cain has also spoken at Google, PIXAR, the US Treasury, P&G, Harvard, and West Point. She received Harvard Law School’s Celebration Award for Thought Leadership, the Toastmasters International Golden Gavel Award for Communication and Leadership, and was named one of the world’s top 50 Leadership and Management Experts by Inc. Magazine. She is an honors graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School. She lives in the Hudson River Valley with her husband, two sons, and goldendoodle, Sophie. Visit Susan at susancain.net.

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Just What My Heart Needed

This came to me in a time in my life that I really needed to hear it. I listened and felt joy , peace and sorrow. I smiled , pondered and cried. The soothing voice and background music instantly calmed me . I’m so happy I came across this Audible original!

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The Doll Story

Really liked it for my first audiobook. I can’t wait to use these steps in my life.

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Thoughtful

I like the positive spin on our existence, looking at our individuality and each of our integral part in the universe,

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Great examples and life stories A quiet Life in Seven Steps

I enjoyed the illustration of life experiences and how the author relates to everyone regardless of your perspective and personal life experience.

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Too many questions

I just didn’t like the subject as much as I thought I would. It was more about losing someone you love.

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Incomplete or whole? How does society read us?

This book hot home for me! I have always felt I needed to change to fit in. Society had its preferences but this book defines how it has rallied to that and how we can yet embrace ourselves in it with perspective.

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New perspective!

I found this at a time i really needed most. i'm an art student with fears of the future, i suffer with the grief of a best friend i lost due to an accident, and susan cain put so many of these anxieties and fears and sadness into new perspectives! i loved the guided meditations and will go back to use in times of needs. she's honest, kind, and gentle. absolutely recommend and can't wait to discover more from her!

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Life-changing principles

Susan’s book is extremely thought-provoking and tapped right into what I have felt so many times in life but was never able to articulate. Thank you for giving me the language and tools to bring this forward in my life and (hopefully) the lives of those in my sphere of influence.

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Inspiring

Very interesting and deeply. I strongly recommend it. It does go quick and makes you think and feel that there could be another way to approach life.

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