Chapter 2

BROADENING YOUR HORIZONS BY BREAKING INTO THE EXTROVERT’S CULTURAL SPHERE

MY FIRST JOB IN THE US was a sports marketing internship at my university.

The University of Minnesota is a Division I school that attracts a lot of top-talent players and has many national competition goals. The school puts a lot of effort into sports marketing to draw in even more fans who come to watch the school’s various sports teams compete; this, in turn, increases the school’s visibility and name recognition throughout the country. When it comes to professional sports, we are talking about a huge industry. In 2019, according to a Forbes survey, the average team value for a professional American football team was around $2.86 billion. Professional Major ...

Get Quiet Is a Superpower now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.