How Sensitive is “too” Sensitive? And How Can It Become a Superpower? | Jenn Granneman

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Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Feel overwhelmed by the world's intensity? Bestselling author Jenn Granneman (Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World) reveals how to transform your sensitivity from a perceived weakness into a profound strength.

Discover the five superpowers of highly sensitive people and how to thrive by embracing - not suppressing - your ability to feel the world's richness so vividly.

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0:00.0	It's easy to get stressed. It's easy to get overwhelmed when you're sensitive. I'm not saying you
0:04.4	shouldn't try to fix those things that you struggle with. But...
0:10.2	So ever felt misunderstood or overwhelmed by the intensity of the world around you? Today,
0:17.0	best-selling author of the book's sensitivity, Jen Granaman, reveals how embracing your
0:21.6	sensitivity can transform it from a perceived weakness into your greatest strength.
0:26.6	Sensitive people feel the stress and the pain and the joy and the beauty of the world,
0:32.3	usually in a pretty intense way, because they're picking up so much.
0:35.8	It feels like we live in a world that's not
0:38.3	really built for sensitive people and often we'll even tend to judge it. It's hard to be a sensitive
0:43.9	person in this world. It's hard, right? We see people struggling. We see stress, pain, heartache.
0:52.0	When I use the word sensitive, I'm talking about it as a personality trait.
0:56.3	Does that mean you look at it as something that is changeable or not? Oh, great question.
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