Susan Cain on BITTERSWEET: HOW SORROW AND LONGING MAKE US WHOLE
\u201cLeonard Cohen is like my all-time favorite musician\xa0\u2026\xa0I, all my life, have had this reaction to sad music,\xa0of not feeling sad at all when I listened to it. Instead, what I feel is a kind of sense of uplift, and a sense of wonder and awe that a musician could take pain and turn it into beauty. And most of all, a kind of sense of connection with the musician and with all the other people who are listening to it. It's a kind of like beautiful acknowledgement that the state of being human involves loss and involves sorrow.\u201d Susan Cain changed the way we think about introverts with her first bestseller,\xa0Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can\u2019t Stop Talking, and now she\u2019s going to change the way we approach some difficult feelings with\xa0Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.\xa0Susan joins us on the show to talk about the thinkers and poets who influenced the new book, the veneer of effortless belonging, resolving her own grief, impermanence, collective creativity (and shifting our communal thinking), Susan David\u2019s concept of Emotional Agility, how writing this book changed her and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.\xa0And we end the episode with a TBR Topoff segment featuring Margie and Marc.
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Featured Books:
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole\xa0by Susan Cain
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can\u2019t Stop Talking\xa0by Susan Cain
Gold\xa0by Rumi
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