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When Jessica Chen entered the workforce, she felt like everything she had been taught growing up in a Quiet Culture household—where deference, humility, harmony, and dogged hard work were praised—failed to set her up for success in the “real world.” Her ingrained values were in direct contrast with what was actually needed to stand out in a Loud Culture workplace. The result? Feeling underappreciated, passed over for opportunities and promotions, and completely stuck. Building on the lessons she learned as an award-winning TV news journalist, Chen—who now speaks at Fortune 100 companies and whose LinkedIn Learning courses have been watched by over 2 million people—introduces a new way of getting noticed at work, without being loud, aggressive, or boastful. In Smart, Not Loud, Chen teaches readers how they can look within, to the values they already hold, to more effectively show up.

Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that’s warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city. The residents of Snowglobe have everything: fame, fortune, and above all, safety from the desolation outside their walls. In exchange, their lives are broadcast to the less fortunate outside, who watch eagerly, hoping for the chance to one day become actors themselves. Chobahm lives for the time she spends watching the shows produced inside Snowglobe. Her favorite? Goh Around, starring Goh Haeri, Snowglobe’s biggest star—and, it turns out, the key to getting Chobahm her dream life. Because Haeri is dead, and Chobahm has been chosen to take her place. Only, life inside Snowglobe is nothing like what you see on television. Reality is a lie, and truth seems to be forever out of reach.

En la familia, en el trabajo, en la pareja, en la amistad... En todo. El dolor es necesario. El optimismo ha de ser realista, y el sufrimiento es inherente a la vida. Y hemos de contar con ello. Ahora bien, nunca más allá de lo que toca, que no es poco, porque, además, suele llegar en un momento inoportuno. ¿Cuándo es pertinente sufrir? Aparentemente nunca, pero, por otro lado, ¿acaso es concebible una vida sin dolor, sin disgustos, sin rupturas, sin duelos? Si el sinsabor ya es parte de la vida... ¿Por qué tenemos que complicarlo más? ¿Para qué? Precisamente de eso va este libro, de poder contar con unas herramientas útiles, sencillas y para cada uno de nosotros, universales, que nos enseñarán el camino para vivir tranquilos y confiados. Ejercicios, procesos y pautas para encontrar la posibilidad de disfrutar siempre que tengamos ocasión de ello: de vivir, de sentir, de hacer, de responsabilizarse y de enfrentarse a todo lo que dependa de nosotros, mientras siga dependiendo de nosotros; y gestionarlo de la mejor manera posible. Si eres, como yo, de los que quieren VIVIR, intensamente y con mayúsculas, todo el rato, ¡adelante!