Book Thoughts – The Art of Shouting Quietly by Pete Mosley

It’s only when you’ve started reading Pete Mosley’s  The Art of Shouting Quietly. A Guide to Self-Promotion for Introverts and other Quiet Souls  that you begin to appreciate fully the point of the book’s subtitle. ‘Self-promotion’ is typically what people with loud voices and larger-than-life personalities are thought to ‘do’. Pete takes us into a different world – the world of the ‘Quiet Soul’.

Book cover of The Art of Shouting QuietlyThe Quiet Soul may avoid self-promotion like the plague, and may also appear to be unobtrusive, even unremarkable. Yet such a soul can have much more to offer than meets the eye, with a depth and subtlety which is drowned out in a world that values noise above substance. Recognising this, Pete has quietly challenged many (often in the arts and crafts) to find the inner confidence to believe in the value they can bring to society by pursuing their dreams, and by turning those dreams into successful businesses.

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