I Need Money but I Don’t Want to Talk to New People

What if the quiet life you’ve been hiding in… is exactly the life that fits you best?

In this tender, funny, and gently revealing memoir of introversion, Sam Choo finally says what so many quiet people have never found the words for:

“I need money, but I don’t want to talk to new people.”

This is not a book about fixing yourself or forcing extroversion.

It is a book about surviving a loud world with a quiet nervous system.

About navigating group chats, meetings, small talk, and oversharers with grace.

About learning to earn without burning out.

About setting boundaries you should have set years ago.

And about finding peace in being unseen, unheard, and unapologetically yourself.

Through relatable stories, gentle psychology, and insights that feel like someone finally understands you, this book becomes a soft companion for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by noise, drained by conversations, or pressured to be someone louder.

If you’ve ever rehearsed a sentence before saying it.

If your social battery has ever died mid-conversation.

If you’ve ever chosen solitude over spectacle.

If success, to you, means living honestly rather than living loudly…

Then this book is your home.

A quiet life is still a meaningful life.

Sometimes, it’s the most meaningful one of all.