The Satisfied Introvert

An Eye-Opening Read for Introverts and Those Who Love Them

The Satisfied Introvert is Benjamin Plumb’s memoir of an obsession, a “winning recipe” that he adopts as a child so he can feel safe in an extroverted world. Every introvert child creates his or her own recipe. But if carried too far, as Ben finds out, it can provide a ruinous way to live.

He realizes this only after decades of not knowing that the recipe is the reason why he never attains a feeling of security, and never fulfills the bright promise of his life. When he teaches himself to detach from this fixation, he finds the courage to lean directly into his skills as an introvert, and finally achieves the safety and satisfaction that he had sought in vain through the recipe.

The Satisfied Introvert is a captivating, adventure-filled voyage that takes place in more than a dozen sites across Latin America, Asia, and the US, and plays out in the high-performance, “introvert hell” environments of Stanford, Harvard, the US Army, and American business.

This story is about a lifelong journey filled with discovery and insight, absorbing drama, and heartfelt relationships, leaving the reader not only wiser but also safer and more satisfied with life.

Ben graduated from the Harvard Business School and was a US Army Intelligence officer in Vietnam. His obsession with his winning recipe mistakenly led him into careers as an entrepreneur and an executive. As soon as he backed away from the recipe and began to live openly as an introvert, he found his niche as a writer, and turned his life around. He lives in the Tampa Bay area with his wife Sandy of almost forty years.