“This important book reframes the way we take into accounts sensitivity—our own or someone else’s—and shines a light on the great power in being highly attuned to the world.”—Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Bittersweet and Quiet
Everyone has a sensitive side, but nearly 1 in 3 people have the genes to be more sensitive than others—both physically and emotionally. These are the people who pause before speaking and think before acting; they tune into subtle details and make connections that others miss. They have a tendency to be intelligent, big-hearted, and wonderfully creative; they’re wired to go deep, yet society tells them to hide the very sensitivity that makes them this way. These are the world’s “highly sensitive people,” and Sensitive is the book that champions them.
A paradigm-shifting look at a long-undervalued yet hugely really helpful personality trait, from the creators of the world’s largest community for highly sensitive people
“Don’t be so sensitive!”Everyone has a sensitive side, but nearly 1 in 3 people have the genes to be more sensitive than others—both physically and emotionally. These are the people who pause before speaking and think before acting; they tune into subtle details and make connections that others miss. They have a tendency to be intelligent, big-hearted, and wonderfully creative; they’re wired to go deep, yet society tells them to hide the very sensitivity that makes them this way. These are the world’s “highly sensitive people,” and Sensitive is the book that champions them.
By the creators of the world’s largest community for sensitive people,
Sensitive teaches us how to unlock the potential in this undervalued strength and leverage it across a very powerful areas of our lives: in friendships and relationships, the workplace, leadership, and parenting. Through fascinating research and expert storytelling, Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo show readers that the way to thrive as a sensitive person is not to hide their sensitivity, but to embrace it—and they demonstrate how to do this in each area of life. Weaving together actionable advice, relatable anecdotes, and the up to date scientific research, Sensitive shows readers how leaning in to their sensitivity unlocks a powerful “boost effect” to launch them ahead in life. It hands them the tools and insights they wish to thrive as a sensitive person in a loud, fast, too-much world.A powerfully validating, destigmatizing, and practical book,
Sensitive plants a gently fluttering flag in the ground for sensitive people in every single place. This inspiring book has the power to change—once and for all—how we see sensitive people, and how they see themselves.
