Bittersweet State of Mind, feat. Susan Cain (Enneagram 4)

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Ian Morgan Cron

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered why you like sad music, find comfort or inspiration in a rainy day, or react intensely to music, art, nature, and beauty? If so, you may identify with the bittersweet state of mind.

Bestselling author Susan Cain joins Anthony and I in a deep exploration of the important topic of bittersweet. She explains that “as humans, we enter this world with a sense of longing and separation from a more perfect and beautiful world. We come into the world with this knowledge and with these kinds of holy tears, you could call them, and this is one of the best and most beautiful things about us, the fact that we feel this [..], the fact of wanting to glimpse it and occasionally glimpsing it is that that's actually the secret fuel behind our creativity and our capacity for love.”

Tune in for this incredible conversation that puts words to the pining and longing of Enneagram Fours.

Susan Cain is the author of the bestsellers 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.

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0:00.0	Hello, typology friends. Welcome to this week's episode on the show where we explore the mystery
0:11.1	of the human personality through the lens of the Enneagram. This is a really big show
0:15.9	friends. I have been so excited to have Susan Kane, Enneagram 4, and author of the best
0:22.6	selling books, Quiet, The Power of Introverts, and now her latest book, Bittersweet. How
0:28.1	longing and sorrow make us whole. Susan, welcome to the show. Thank you so much Ian. It is so
0:35.9	great to be here. We've been working to make this happen for a long time, and I'm so happy
0:40.9	to finally be here. I want to tell people about a serendipitous deal. So I've read your book,
0:51.8	Bittersweet. How longing and sorrow make us whole. And then two weeks later, I get a call
0:59.7	from my publicist saying, you're not going to believe this. I got Susan Kane on the show,
1:03.7	typology. I went, okay, that is creepy, wonderful. So I'm really excited that you're here and
1:11.0	that we get to talk. And I have to say that when I went through Barnes and Mill, when I saw a
1:14.9	title, Bittersweet, how longing and sorrow make us whole. I went, oh my god, that is a book.
1:20.2	I'm going to read. Well, I mean, it's so funny that you had that reaction because we were talking
1:27.8	before we went live about how we're all gram fours. And I can't tell you how many letters I've
1:36.9	gotten from people since Bittersweet came out or maybe even like in the month's leading up to it,
1:41.7	saying, are you an any gram four? Because I am two. You must be if you're writing this book.
1:46.9	Wow. Well, this is the perfect book for fours. I will say I want all, I want all of our folks to
1:53.9	go out and get this book because it is so important, so insightful. It requires a very special
1:59.5	person to see the obvious. You know what I'm saying? Like this has long been an important topic
2:04.4	that really nobody's explored as deeply as you have. And if you aren't any gram four or you
2:11.1	want to better understand any gram fours, you just cannot find a better book to explore for
2:17.7	yourself and for the ones that you love who fall into this category of human beings. So this
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