How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole with Susan Cain

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Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Do you typically repress pain, internalize it, and let it damage the way you treat yourself and others? On today's episode of Chase Jarvis Live, I'm joined by Susan Cain. Susan is the author of "Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole," and "Quiet Journal, Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts," which spent eight years on The New York Times best seller list, and has been translated into 40 languages.

Joy and sorrow are eternally paired in this world. So why do we so willingly accept and celebrate one, and try to distance ourselves from the other? Susan encourages our listeners to see their pain, sorrow, sadness, suffering, as their own creative superpowers.

A few main takeaways from the show:

Why humans we play sad songs 5x more than happy songs.
Finding validation and permission to feel pain, move towards it.
The role creativity has in our ability to make something beautiful out of painful experiences

One of the greatest gifts of humanity is the innate ability to take something painful and turn it into an expression of beauty. This expression acts as a positive coping mechanism. When that transformation occurs, we grow through it, and come out the other side with a new understanding of the magic that exists behind painful experiences. There is no shortage of feelings on this journey, but how we use these feelings can make all the difference.

Susan leaves us off with an important message: Seek beauty daily.

The more you look, the more you’ll find.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show.
0:08.6	This is the show where I sit down with amazing humans. I unpack their brain with the goal of helping you live your dreams.
0:14.0	And today's guest is the one and only Susan Kane. Susan was the author a number of years ago of a book that spent eight years
0:23.7	on the New York Times bestseller list called Quiet, The Power of Interverts in a world
0:28.2	that can't stop talking. And we have her on the show today to discuss her new work,
0:33.1	Bitter Sweet. Brilliant set of themes that we talk about here, understanding and embracing
0:38.2	introversion, understanding why we seek beauty as human beings, why the power of those who
0:44.8	seek beauty can unlock and help us transform our lives. We also talk about the toxic and false
0:51.6	framework of winners and losers, as well as a three-step plan,
0:55.9	maybe even call it a recipe for how to pursue the highest versions of ourselves.
1:01.4	She is a brilliant thinker, and she speaks super plain language, and obviously in a world
1:06.6	like we're discussing quiet and introversion and bittersweet, how sorrow and longing
1:10.6	actually help us become incredible people. She is such a great... like we're discussing quiet and introversion and bittersweet how sorrow and longing actually
1:11.0	help us become incredible people. She is such a great example of how you can take something
1:16.9	that pop culture doesn't understand and how we can twist that in a way that helps us realize
1:22.4	that we've been wrong all along. She is brilliant. I can't wait for you to enjoy this episode.
1:27.6	Yours truly and Susan Kane. Hey, real quick, before we get into the show, I want to let you know
1:33.9	today's episode is sponsored by Creative Live. If there's one thing that's clear now more than ever
1:40.1	before, that is refreshing your skills being critical to the future of your employment,
1:47.7	your ability to live the dreams that you seek and career and hobby in life to expand your
1:52.6	business, attract better clients, or move on to that next phase of your career. A recent survey
1:59.5	reported that 52% of employees feel burned out at work.
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