775: Susan Cain Uncovers the Surprising and Uplifting Power of Sorrow and Longing
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Susan Cain explains how embracing bittersweetness helps us lead more creative, connected, and fulfilling careers and lives.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Two simple shifts to make you more courageous
2) How a bias for positivity is holding us back
3) How to keep your brain from wallowing in negativity
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— ABOUT SUSAN —
Susan Cain is the #1 bestselling author of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, which spent eight years on The New York Times best seller list, and has been translated into 40 languages. Susan’s TED talks have been viewed over 40 million times. LinkedIn named her the Top 6th Influencer in the World, just behind Richard Branson and Melinda French Gates. Susan partners with Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant and Dan Pink to curate the Next Big Idea Book Club. They donate all their proceeds to children’s literacy programs. Visit Susan at susancain.net.
• Book: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
• Book: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
• Quiz: Bittersweet Quiz
• Website: SusanCain.net
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Article: “The Compassionate Instinct” by Dacher Keltner
• Book: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Video: Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care
• Previous episode: 757: How to Find the Career You Truly Love with Marcus Buckingham
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks for joining us to your episode 775 with Susan Cain. |
| 0:23.9 | Susan is a true luminarian so when I've worn a chat with four years and now we are |
| 0:29.5 | chatting, we are talking about how there is a surprising and uplifting power in sorrow |
| 0:36.6 | and longing. |
| 0:37.9 | And so this one is kind of fun and different. |
| 0:40.0 | It's a little bit more philosophical and deep and a little bit less tactic, tactic, |
| 0:45.2 | tactic. |
| 0:46.2 | But nonetheless, I think quite applicable for giving a boost in courage, in confidence, |
| 0:52.5 | in meaning, in purpose, in your career, and whole life. |
| 0:57.6 | So it's a rich conversation. |
| 0:58.8 | I think you will find rewarding. |
| 1:00.6 | You'll learn one, two simple shifts to make you more courageous, two, how a bias for |
| 1:04.9 | positivity can be holding you back, and three, how to keep your brain from wallowing in |
| 1:10.0 | negativity. |
| 1:11.0 | So if you want to check out our show notes or the transcripts or the links to bits that |
| 1:14.4 | we mentioned here, please pay us a visit at awesome at your job.com slash EP 775 and |
| 1:20.1 | check out some of our goodies at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:23.0 | And if you're it's your first time listening to the show, I might recommend checking out |
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