You Don't Have to be Loud

Drawing on the narrative of his own life growing up as a painfully shy child, Ben Brooks explores what it is to be ‘quiet’ - what it means, what it can feel like, and how we can embrace it - and debunks some of the myths about what it means to be a shy person.

Around 60% of adults identify as ‘shy’ - just one of the facts that Ben uses to ‘normalise’ shyness, outlining stories of famously shy people from the past and the present - Charles Darwin, David Bowie, Greta Thunberg, Rosa Park…