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  • Published: 25 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241993255
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $30.00

Sensitive

The Power of a Thoughtful Mind in an Overwhelming World





A ground-breaking look at the power of sensitivity to transform our relationships, career and life, from world-leading experts

Sensitive celebrates the power of a deeper, more tuned in mind and explores the superpower that is being a 'highly sensitive person'. If you have a heightened sense of empathy, or often notice tiny details that others don't, chances are you're a highly sensitive person, along with one fifth of the population. Highly sensitive people exemplify our best and most humane traits. They embody not just emotional sensitivity - qualities like empathy, kindness, and concern for strangers - but physical sensitivity too, processing all information very deeply.

The unique strengths of highly sensitive people make them inspiring leaders, heartfelt caretakers, careful decision-makers, and natural-born artists. Offering an exciting new way of unlocking potential, this book gives sensitives - and those who care about them - the tools to be successful in school, work, life, and love. Based on more than twenty years of research in neuroscience, psychology, and human genetics, it is the first book to explore the science and strengths behind sensitivity.

  • Published: 25 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241993255
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $30.00

Praise for Sensitive

'Granneman and Solo's engaging and science-backed gem of a book is equal parts revelation, validation and celebration'

Ellen Hendriksen, PhD, author of How to Be Yourself

'A well-organized, thoughtful look at sensitivity by the devoted creators of a popular, information-rich online community for sensitive people'

Judith Orloff, author of The Empath’s Survival Guide

'This important book reframes the way we think about sensitivity'

Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet

'Offering a deft mixture of science reporting, manifesto, and advice, Granneman and Solo make an urgent case for harnessing the power of the sensitive individual in an increasingly noisy world'

Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work

A natural follow up to Susan Cain's Quiet

The Sunday Times Style

The authors paint an illuminating portrait of highly sensitive people

Financial Times