Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come by Jessica Pan

But it was so hard, so I decided to interview psychologists to coach me through this. After I read research about how talking to strangers can make us happier, I vowed to talk to strangers for one month. I just knew something big had to change to get out of my current situation.Īround the same time, I realized that I lived in a city full of 9 million people, and I talked to one a day: the barista.

I really wanted to be braver and make new friends and do things that had always scared me - but I didn’t know how. I’d started to work from home and realized that it was incredibly lonely – most of my friends in London had moved away or had babies, or had babies and moved away. I reached a really low point in my life about a year ago. Did you start the project before your year as an extrovert, or did the book come about as a result of your experiment?Ī little bit of both. She chronicles her year of misadventures and explores what happens when one introvert fights her natural tendencies, takes the plunge, and tries (and sometimes fails) to be a little bit braver.

With the help of various extrovert mentors like psychologists, charisma coaches, and comedians, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life. What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? Jessica Pan answers this question in her memoir, Sorry I’m Late I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes. It was a treat to chat with Jessica Pan about her memoir, Sorry I’m Late I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes.

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come by Jessica Pan