480: How to Turn Sadness Into Your Creative Superpower | Susan Cain
The Ultimate Health Podcast
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🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/susancain480
Susan Cain (IG: @susancainauthor) is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning speaker. Her TED talk has been viewed over 40 million times.
Susan helps curate the Next Big Idea Book Club which donates all their proceeds to children’s literacy programs.
Today we’re discussing her new masterpiece, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.
We unpack bittersweetness, which is at the heart of life and its link to creativity & con\xadnection.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The mystery of sad music and why it moves us
- The culture of positivity in America
- What is effortless perfection?
- The power of expressive writing
- Turning your pain into creative expression
- Finding your form of expression
- Sharing your truth
- How to practice Memento Mori
- Strategies to work through difficult emotions
- The idea of loving-kindness meditation
- The Bittersweet Quiz
- The strength of introverts
- Can trauma be passed down from generation to generation?
- We have the ability to heal
- Normalize daily joy and pain
- Savouring the moments
- How Susan personally transformed writing Bittersweet
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Everything changes all the time. |
| 0:04.3 | Like it, I mean, just constantly. |
| 0:07.7 | Yeah, and I think when you really get attuned |
| 0:10.7 | to that, you do a lot more savoring. |
| 0:12.8 | A lot more savoring and a lot more memory making, you know, |
| 0:15.5 | and realizing this particular moment of time, |
| 0:18.8 | it will never be again. |
| 0:20.6 | And that's okay. |
| 0:22.6 | We don't have to, like, |
| 0:24.5 | you don't have to mourn that, |
| 0:26.0 | but we have to notice it and savor. |
| 0:29.7 | Hello, and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 480. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm Jesse Travis, and I'm here to take your help to the next level. |
| 0:38.7 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations |
| 0:41.0 | with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 0:43.7 | This week I'm chatting with Susan Cain. |
| 0:46.1 | Susan is a New York Times-specelling author |
| 0:48.8 | and award-winning speaker. |
| 0:50.3 | Her TED Talk has been viewed over 40 million times. |
| 0:53.9 | Susan helps curate the next big idea |
| 0:56.3 | of book club, which donates all their proceeds |
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