Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can ... - WordPress.com

you want to return to your true self. Itcan be a physical place, like the pathbeside the Richelieu River, or a temporalone, like the quiet breaks you planbetween sales calls. It can mean cancelingyour social plans on the weekendbefore a big meeting at work, practicingyoga or meditation, or choosing e-mail over an in-person meeting. (EvenVictorian ladies, whose job effectivelywas to be available to friends and family,were expected to withdraw for arest each afternoon.)You choose a restorative niche whenyou close the door to your private office(if you’re lucky enough to haveone) in between meetings. You caneven create a restorative niche during ameeting, by carefully selecting whereyou sit, and when and how you participate.In his memoir In an UncertainWorld, Robert Rubin, the treasury620/929