The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
by Olga Khazan
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Adam Grant and Daniel Pink
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In the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Scott Stossel's My Age of Anxiety, Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan reclaims the concept of "weird" and turns it into a badge of honor rather than a slur, showing how being different culturally, socially, physically, or mentally can actually be a person's greatest strength.Most of us have at some po...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Best Leadership Books, Most Recommended Books, and Leadership.
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“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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