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Acknowledgments
I could not have written 
Quiet
without the help of countless friends,
family members, and colleagues, including: Richard Pine, otherwise
known (to me) as Super-Agent RSP: the smartest, savviest, and
menschiest literary agent that any writer could hope to work with.
Richard believed unswervingly in 
Quiet
, even before I did. Then he kept
on believing, all the way through the five years it took me to research
and write it. I consider him not only an agent but a partner in my career.
I also enjoyed working with the whole team at InkWell Management,
including Ethan Bassoff, Lyndsey Blessing, and Charlie Olsen.
At Crown Publishers, it has been my privilege to work with the
remarkable Molly Stern and her all-star team. Rachel Klayman has got to
be the most brilliant and dedicated editor in the business. She has been
there at two in the afternoon and at two in the morning, spotting flaws
in my reasoning and clunkers in my prose, and championing this book
indefatigably. I also appreciate how generous Mary Choteborsky and
Jenna Ciongoli were with their editorial talents. And I was fortunate to
work with outside editor Peter Guzzardi, who has terrific instincts and a
knack for making criticism sound delightful. My heartfelt thanks to all of
you. This book would be a shadow of itself without your efforts.
Special thanks too to Rachel Rokicki and Julie Cepler for the creativity
and enthusiasm they brought to the 
Quiet
cause. And thanks to Patty
Berg, Mark Birkey, Chris Brand, Stephanie Chan, Tina Constable, Laura
Duffy, Songhee Kim, Kyle Kolker, Rachel Meier, Annsley Rosner, and
everyone else on the team at Crown.
I have also been very lucky to work with Joel Rickett, Kate Barker,
and the rest of the crackerjack group at Viking/Penguin U.K.
The marvelous people at TED embraced the ideas in this book and
offered me a chance to talk about them at the TED Long Beach
conference in 2012. I am grateful to Chris Anderson, Kelly Stoetzel, June
Cohen, Tom Rielly, Michael Glass, Nicholas Weinberg, and the entire
TED team.
Brian Little, whose work I profiled in 
chapter 9
, has become an

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extraordinary mentor and friend. I met Brian early in my research
process, when I asked for an interview. He gave me not only the
interview but also, over the years, my own personal graduate seminar in
personality psychology. I am proud to be one of his many disciples and
friends.
Elaine Aron, whose research I profiled in 
chapter 6
, inspired me with
her life’s work and gave generously of her time, knowledge, and life
story.
I relied on the support and advice of innumerable friends, including:
Marci Alboher, Gina Bianchini, Tara Bracco, Janis Brody, Greg Bylinksy,
David Callahan, Helen Churko, Mark Colodny, Estie Dallett, Ben Dattner,
Ben Falchuk, Christy Fletcher, Margo Flug, Jennifer Gandin Le, Rhonda
Garelick, Michael Glass, Vishwa Goohya, Leeat Granek, Amy Gutman,
Hillary Hazan-Glass, Wende Jaeger-Hyman, Mahima Joishy, Emily Klein,
Chris Le, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, Lori Lesser, Margot Magowan,
Courtney Martin, Fran and Jerry Marton, Furaha Norton, Elizabeth
O’Neill, Wendy Paris, Leanne Paluck Reiss, Marta Renzi, Gina Rudan,
Howard Sackstein, Marisol Simard, Daphna Stern, Robin Stern, Tim
Stock, Jillian Straus, Sam Sugiura, Tom Sugiura, Jennifer Taub, Kate
Tedesco, Ruti Teitel, Seinenu Thein, Jacquette Timmons, Marie Lena
Tupot, Sam Walker, Daniel Wolff, and Cali Yost. A special, super-duper
thanks to Anna Beltran, Maritza Flores, and Eliza Simpson.
I am especially grateful for the forbearance of some of my oldest and
dearest friends: Mark Colodny, Jeff Kaplan, Hitomi Komatsu, Cathy
Lankenau-Weeks, Lawrence Mendenhall, Jonathan Sichel, Brande
Stellings, Judith van der Reis, Rebecca and Jeremy Wallace-Segall, and
Naomi Wolf, who remain close even though we barely had time to talk,
let alone visit, during the years I wrote this book and gave birth to my
two children.
Thank you, too, to my fellow members of the Invisible Institute, who
inspire and astonish me on a regular basis: Gary Bass, Elizabeth Devita-
Raeburn, Abby Ellin, Randi Epstein, Sheri Fink, Christine Kenneally,
Judith Matloff, Katie Orenstein, Annie Murphy Paul, Pamela Paul,
Joshua Prager, Alissa Quart, Paul Raeburn, Kathy Rich, Gretchen Rubin,
Lauren Sandler, Deborah Siegel, Rebecca Skloot, Debbie Stier, Stacy
Sullivan, Maia Szalavitz, Harriet Washington, and Tom Zoellner.
For inspiration that I would bottle and sell if I could, I thank the

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owners of the cottage in Amagansett: Alison (Sunny) Warriner and
Jeanne Mclemore. The same goes for Evelyn and Michael Polesny,
proprietors of the magical Doma Café in Greenwich Village, where I
wrote most of this book.
Thanks also to those who helped with various aspects of getting 
Quiet
off the ground: Nancy Ancowitz, Mark Colodny, Bill Cunningham, Ben
Dattner, Aaron Fedor, Boris Fishman, David Gallo, Christopher Glazek,
Suzy Hansen, Jayme Johnson, Jennifer Kahweiler, David Lavin, Ko-Shin
Mandell, Andres Richner, JillEllyn Riley, Gretchen Rubin, Gregory
Samanez-Larkin, Stephen Schueller, Sree Sreenivasan, Robert Stelmack,
Linda Stone, John Thompson, Charles Yao, Helen Wan, Georgia
Weinberg, and Naomi Wolf.
I owe a special debt to the people I wrote about or quoted, some of
whom have become friends: Michel Anteby, Jay Belsky, Jon Berghoff,
Wayne Cascio, Hung Wei Chien, Boykin Curry, Tom DeMarco, Richard
Depue, Dr. Janice Dorn, Anders Ericsson, Jason Fried, Francesca Gino,
Adam Grant, William Graziano, Stephen Harvill, David Hofmann,
Richard Howard, Jadzia Jagiellowicz, Roger Johnson, Jerry Kagan, Guy
Kawasaki, Camelia Kuhnen, Tiffany Liao, Richard Lippa, Joanna Lipper,
Adam McHugh, Mike Mika, Emily Miller, Jerry Miller, Quinn Mills,
Purvi Modi, Joseph Newman, Preston Ni, Carl Schwartz, Dave Smith,
Mark Snyder, Jacqueline Strickland, Avril Thorne, David Weiss, Mike
Wei, and Shoya Zichy.
There are many, many others who aren’t mentioned by name in 
Quiet
but who gave generously of their time and wisdom, via interviews and
the like, and who dramatically informed my thinking: Marco Acevedo,
Anna Allanbrook, Andrew Ayre, Dawn Rivers Baker, Susan Blew,
Jonathan Cheek, Jeremy Chua, Dave Coleman, Ben Dattner, Matthew
Davis, Scott Derue, Carl Elliott, Brad Feld, Kurt Fischer, Alex Forbes,
Donna Genyk, Carole Grand, Stephen Gerras, Lenny Gucciardi, Anne
Harrington, Naomi Karten, James McElroy, Richard McNally, Greg
Oldham, Christopher Peterson, Lise Quintana, Lena Roy, Chris
Scherpenseel, Hersh Shefrin, Nancy Snidman, Sandy Tinkler, Virginia
Vitzthum, E. O. Wilson, David Winter, and Patti Wollman. Thank you,
all.
Most of all I thank my family: Lawrence and Gail Horowitz, Barbara
Schnipper, and Mitchell Horowitz, whom I wrote about in the

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dedication; Lois, Murray, and Steve Schnipper, who make the world a
warmer place; Steve and Gina Cain, my wonderful West Coast siblings;
and the inimitable Heidi Postlewait.
Special thanks and love to Al and Bobbi Cain, who lent me their
advice, contacts, and professional counsel as I researched and wrote, and
who constantly cause me to hope that one day I will be as devoted and
supportive an in-law to some young person as they are to me.
And to my beloved Gonzo (a.k.a. Ken), who may just be the most
generous person on earth, and the most dashing. During the years I
wrote this book, he edited my drafts, sharpened my ideas, made me tea,
made me laugh, brought me chocolate, seeded our garden, turned his
world upside down so I had time to write, kept our lives colorful and
exciting, and got us the hell out of the Berkshires. He also, of course,
gave us Sammy and Elishku, who have filled our house with trucks and
our hearts with love.

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