Rethinking Big Ideas: Susan Cain on Solitude

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🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Last season, we brought you ideas with the power to change the way you see the world. Now that the world’s been turned upside down, we thought it’d be a good time to invite back some of our favorite guests to give us some much needed perspective in this confusing time. We’re starting this special miniseries, “Big Ideas in Uncertain Times,” with Susan Cain, the bestselling author of "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can't Stop Talking." She tells us about the upside to solitude, why introspection has never been more important, and even gives us a few tantalizing clues about her new book.

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0:00.0	The LinkedIn Podcast podcast network is sponsored by Zen Desk.
0:03.5	Listen to Conversations with Zen Desk, a podcast featuring leaders discussing real customer experience strategies.
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0:15.0	Available on all streaming platforms or at zendesk.com slash podcast. from Wundery I'm Rufus Griskam and this is a special episode of the next big idea. Thanks to all of you who listen to the first season, where we brought you ideas with
0:49.2	the power to change the way you see the world.
0:52.2	We'll be back with the second season on April 21st
0:54.7	and we'll be covering a wide range of topics
0:56.8	like how to grow old with dignity,
0:58.7	the evolution of friendship,
1:00.3	and how technology will transform our world in the next 20 years.
1:04.0	But starting this week, we want to check in with some of the guests from the first season
1:08.0	to talk with them about how their big ideas fit into these uncertain times.
1:12.0	Like the rest of you, we've been utterly disabled. is fit into these uncertain times.
1:13.0	Like the rest of you, we've been utterly disoriented by this COVID-19 global pandemic.
1:18.1	I'm one of the lucky ones.
1:19.2	I'm currently hold up with my wife and three boys, thumb wrestling for Wi-Fi bandwidth and
1:24.1	death space. We're all healthy and like you I'm spending a lot of time talking about
1:28.4	what's going on around us, how to help, and how to make sense of it all. So I reached out to some of the people we talked to in season
1:34.4	one to find out how they've been processing what's happening and how we might apply their
1:38.7	ideas to these challenging times. The upside of solitude, the importance of joy in the home, how to be
1:46.3	indestractable when you're cramped together for an indefinite amount of time
1:49.7	with loved ones, sometimes very small, very loud loved ones in my case.
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