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Formerly, bulletproof radio.

You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.

Today, we're going to talk about something you probably didn't think we're going to talk about.

We're going to talk about what creativity, connection, and love have to do with sorrow and longing.

And how longing is something called momentum in disguise with an expert who's actually spent a lot of time looking at these weird psychological aspects.

What I believe is that many of the things that we do are based in our operating system, our subconscious,

the stuff our body and even parts of our mind do that is entirely invisible to us by design.

And then eventually we get this feeling and then we make up a story to support the feeling.

And it's really interesting to go in on that in this episode.

So you can figure out what you're doing actually versus what you think you're doing and the benefits or costs that have to you that are all entirely invisible unless you know how to look for them.

And the idea is that you can learn how to live and work and be authentic in an environment of what I'm going to call enforced positivity where you get to say the glasses half full, even if there's no water in it at all, I think.

We're going to learn about that and we're also going to learn about grief and what it is.

And if you haven't felt any grief over the last two years, you're quite unusual because that means you still have your job, you still have your business and you don't know who's passed away.

Although people normally pass away at these rates anyway, but just from other causes.

So we won't go into that, but there's just been a lot of societal upheaval and some unexpected things.

And that does usually require grief as a part of it. So we're going to talk about the actual tools that you have on board that you probably don't know you have on board.

And our guest today, jumps started a global conversation about being an introvert about 10 years ago.

And she challenged assumptions, things everyone believed about introverts versus extroverts.

And she was a book called Quiet, the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking.

Seven years on the New York Times bestseller list and translated into 40 languages.

Our name is Susan Cain. So incredibly successful author. And by the way, guys, seven years on the New York Times list is like, I think it's God mode for authors.

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