How to Become Whole Through the Bittersweet with Susan Cain

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Susan Cain is an author who has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Her record-smashing TedTalk has been viewed over 30 million times and was named by Bill Gates as one of his all-time favorite talks. Susan is the author of the book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, which spent seven years on the New York Times Best Selling List and has been translated into 40 languages..

In this episode, Eric and Susan discuss her new book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.

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Susan Cain and I Discuss How to Become Whole Through the Bittersweet and …

Her book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Why some people really love sad music
How brokenness points in the direction of transcendence
How to know if you tend towards a bittersweet state of mind
Why do some people turn pain into something beautiful and in other cases people are broken by life’s difficulties
The way of “even so”
Union between souls when sorrow is shared
Understanding the messiness and unpredictability of grief
The mystery of bittersweet
The divine nature of longing
How longing is different from craving
Being open to great states of transition as gateways in our life
Moving on vs. Moving forward
Poignancy
What it means to turn in the direction of beauty

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0:00.0	The same thing that can when it's not working right predispose us to anxiety and depression
0:05.9	is the very thing that can bring us to our highest and deepest selves.
0:18.9	Welcome to the one you feed.
0:21.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:25.6	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us
0:32.6	our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy,
0:39.0	or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and
0:44.8	dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious,
0:51.0	consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people
0:56.8	keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
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1:46.5	get your favorite podcasts. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Susan Cain,
1:53.8	an author who has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal,
1:58.5	and many other publications. Her record-smashing TED Talk has been viewed over 30 million times,
2:04.5	and was named by Bill Gates as one of his all-time favorite talks. Susan is the author of Quiet,
2:10.4	the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking, which spent seven years on the New
2:15.7	York Times best-selling list and has been translated into 40 languages. Quiet was named the number one
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