I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to the Ted Talks Daily Summer Book Club series.

So much keeps us distracted these days, right?

And it's hard to just sit still and reflect on what we really want, what we really long

for.

But author Susan Cain makes the case in her 2019 talk that longing is a really meaningful

guide.

Stick around after to hear Susan on Amanda Palmer's podcast, The Art of Asking Everything, where

she talks about some of the themes shared in her talk and her newest book, Better Sweet.

They get into how longing and asking are two sides of the same coin.

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When I was in my early 30s, I was an associate at a Wall Street law firm and I had been

working 16 hour days for seven years straight.

I had this beautiful and impossible dream of becoming a writer.

I was also pretty ambitious and on the verge of making partner.

Or so I thought.

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