A paradigm-shifting look at a long-undervalued yet hugely beneficial personality trait, from the creators of the world’s largest community for highly sensitive people

“Don’t be so sensitive!”

Everyone has a sensitive side, but nearly 1 in 3 people have the genes to be more sensitive than others—both physically and emotionally. These are the people who pause before speaking and think before acting; they tune into subtle details and make connections that others miss. They tend to be intelligent, big-hearted, and wonderfully creative; they are wired to go deep, yet society tells them to hide the very sensitivity that makes them this way. These are the world’s “highly sensitive people,” and Sensitive is the book that champions them. 

By the creators of the world’s largest community for sensitive people, Sensitive teaches us how to unlock the potential in this undervalued strength and leverage it across the most important areas of our lives: in friendships and relationships, the workplace, leadership, and parenting. Through fascinating research and expert storytelling, Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo show readers that the way to thrive as a sensitive person is not to hide their sensitivity, but to embrace it—and they demonstrate how to do that in each area of life. Weaving together actionable advice, relatable anecdotes, and the latest scientific research, Sensitive shows readers how leaning in to their sensitivity unlocks a powerful “boost effect” to launch them ahead in life. It hands them the tools and insights they need to thrive as a sensitive person in a loud, fast, too-much world.

A powerfully validating, destigmatizing, and practical book, Sensitive plants a gently fluttering flag in the ground for sensitive people everywhere. This inspiring book has the power to change—once and for all—how we see sensitive people, and how they see themselves.

Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo are the force behind the world’s largest websites for sensitive people and introverts, Sensitive Refuge and Introvert, Dear. Granneman is an educator, journalist, and the author of The Secret Lives of Introverts and Sólo is a researcher and speaker. They are regular contributors to Psychology Today and Forbes, and have been featured in HuffPost, BuzzFeed, the BBC, MSNBC, the Telegraph, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Vice, Glamour, and more. Granneman reads too many self-help books, Sólo grows too many houseplants, and both believe the world could use a little more of what sensitive people have to offer. They live in Saint Paul, Minnesota, though Sólo is just as often in New Orleans.