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adviser—a pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Stanford’s medicalschool—<strong>in</strong>vited a group <strong>of</strong> studentsto her house. Mike hoped to make agood impression, but he couldn’t th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>of</strong> anyth<strong>in</strong>g to say. <strong>The</strong> other studentsseemed to have no problem jok<strong>in</strong>garound and ask<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>telligent questions.“Mike, you were so loud today,” thepr<strong>of</strong>essor teased him when f<strong>in</strong>ally hesaid good-bye. “You just blew meaway.” He left her house feel<strong>in</strong>g badabout himself. “People who don’t talkare seen as weak or lack<strong>in</strong>g,” he concludedruefully.To be sure, these feel<strong>in</strong>gs were nottotally new to Mike. He’d experiencedglimmers <strong>of</strong> them back <strong>in</strong> high school.Cupert<strong>in</strong>o may have an almost Confucianethic <strong>of</strong> quiet, study, andrelationship-honor<strong>in</strong>g, but it’s subjectto the mores <strong>of</strong> the Extrovert Ideal allthe same. At the local shopp<strong>in</strong>g center548/929

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