Subbab 03. The Quiet

In the world that can't stop talking, being quiet is not always rhymed of being powerless. Being quiet can both become an inwardly-power and outwardly-safe.

There are so many vocal people i've ever met in my life, mostly women. Sometimes i wonder how could people be so loud? isn't the world already a hullabaloo? Some people would wake up in the morning and come back home directly jump into the bed and cover their head, and scream out loud. Some people live their days by telling anyone they meet about how cute their cat is and then quickly spilled an outraged frustration with their very noisy neighbor. People seems don't really care about whether people care about what they care isn't it? Honestly, i guess their friends are not interested on how smart their cat is for its ability covering the poop either.

Some vocal people perceive a quiet person is an anti-social, not fun, powerless, weak, and so on, you name it. Just because they doesn't looks like you, it doesn't mean you have the right to underestimate them anyway. They're quiet just because what they are, or simply they just want to talk when its necessary, or mostly they're not really excited about what your talking about. Seriously, giving negative notions towards something you don't understand doesn't makes you look smarter. Here, im going to address specifically for those identified themselves as a quiet person. Dear, the quiet..

The world is so loud, and your quietness nature is never deviant. Here's why:

1. A quiet temperament is a hidden superpower

2. There's a word for 'people who are in their heads so much': Thinkers

3. Most great ideas spring from quietness

4. You can stretch like a rubber band. You can do anything a vocal people can do

5. It's totally OK to cross the room to avoid small talk

6. Gandhi said, "In a gentle way, you can shake the world"

Some people would asked you a question "Why are you being so quiet?". Some of them just want to know if you're alright, some of them ask in a way that suggest they think it's weird. You don't have to provide a clear-cut answer for that. They just don't familiar enough on how you in the middle of a thought or observation, or on how you are too focus on listening rather than talking. You don't have to force yourself to be a cheerleader, to hit the dance floor, and become a prom queen just to be recognized as 'normal'. Why take so much energy to wasted your times for doing something you don't like, right? A movie night at home plus pizza could be more fun tho. 

Ever heard of "How can you be a successful person if you're a quiet person"? Such a basic future predictions by loony. Probably, they have a misconception on the quiet and the coward. A quiet person is not people who are lazy to talk and not people who afraid to speak. They just don't pretty fit in on such small talks and prefer to think more rather than talk. When they asked to talk, they would deliver it precisely and meaningful. Most of them even could be a great leader.

The most common notion is leadership sometimes defined as a vocal person. The young people with so-called leadership skills were usually the outspoken kids, and the quiet ones usually put in charge of secondary work as taking notes. But leadership doesn't require being highly social or attention-seeking. The most effective leaders are not motivated by a desire to control events or to be in the centre of spotlight. They are motivated by the desire to advance ideas and new ways of looking at the world or to improve the situation of a group of people. These motivations belong to anyone. Anyone can achieve these same goals without compromising your quiet ways. The brash, bold, popular kids often get the most attention, but considered Bill Gates another quiet person who transformed Microsoft into one of the most powerful companies in the world, Warren Buffet another quiet-billionaire-investor-person, and Eleanor Roosevelt another quiet champion of civil rights, women's rights and immigrants' rights in American history. When a quiet person become a leader, they become more visioned, they could accommodate and advocate democracy and inclusiveness more than vocal people do. They not only become a leader, but a highly supportive listeners for everyone! Just because they're not the loudest, but when they speak, everyone listened. They don't need to command their attention by yelling and shouting. Everyone be like "Oh God, you know it's serious when the quiet one is started to speech". A quiet leader is made from everyone's voice.

As what Winston Churchill said, "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen".


People with the quietest voice have achieved incredible things in the world because of their quiet nature not in spite of it. As you grow up in this loud, crazy world there are so many ways to harness your secret strengths and make your mark.

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