The Satisfied Introvert: How I Broke Free from the False Self I Created and Started Living Authentically (So Can You)

He wore a mask of certainty for decades—until it nearly cost him everything.

Author Benjamin Plumb's life reads like an introvert's worst nightmare: terror during US Army field training, fear during enemy night attacks in Vietnam, forced extroversion at the Harvard Business School, chaos during economic collapse in Chile, and shock from an extortion attempt by Manuel Noriega in Panama.

In The Satisfied Introvert—part gripping memoir, part practical self-help book—Plumb tells the story of how...