susan kane susan susan is an author lecturer former wall street kearney and author of the quickly claimed new york times best selling book quiet the power of interference in a world that can't stop talking let's get back to it susan just as we as we hit the break you were mentioning society preference for extroverts and how you would draw an analogy just society's preference arguably for men over women or at least in terms of power situations the one nine hundred fifty s. versus today. there are probably apocryphal stories about times when women have met power over men you know the amazons. as in women up the river. and and actually you know some indications in some cultures the major lineal matriarchal cultures of many native american tribes and of the icelanders for example. are there are times. have there been times in our culture in modern american culture in the last centuries or european culture western culture where. introversion has been prized over extroversion. it's a great question i would not say there is the type of intervention was prized over extroversion not nor in my column for such a time it would have what it really calling for is a time of balance between the two just as i think many of the ea