The Sweet Bitter with Susan Cain

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

There’s something profound in life’s bitter moments. The transformative beauty of a sad song, the anguished past of a story’s hero, the unexpected turnout of a crowded funeral. Turns out we often need darkness in order to appreciate the light. In our modern world, we focus so much on the pursuit of happiness that we often forego an appreciation of bitterness. Susan Cain has found a way to celebrate both the sweet and the bitter… in fact she’s written a bestselling book about it. This is… A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	There's something profound about sad music.
0:09.7	We sort of feel it more than happy music.
0:13.4	I think this is true in other places too.
0:16.1	We can't have a movie about a hero without them facing some sort of challenge or some
0:21.8	sort of bad guy.
0:23.4	Even Walt Disney said you can tell the quality of a movie by how good the villain is.
0:28.9	And he's right.
0:29.9	And it's not just these things are opposites or juxtapositions.
0:34.3	It's that they are sort of metaphors for our lives.
0:37.8	Our lives are filled with sweet and our lives are filled with bitter.
0:43.8	And it's not about denying the bitter to appreciate the sweet.
0:47.9	It's about learning to appreciate the bitter and the sweet.
0:52.8	Which is why I sat down with Susan Cain.
0:55.4	She wrote a book called Bitter Sweet, which is all about appreciating the darkness, not
1:01.8	just seeing it as the opposite of light.
1:04.7	So let's get into it.
1:06.8	Let's enjoy the bitter sweet.
1:10.8	This is a bit of optimism.
1:14.9	Hey Susan, good to see you.
1:16.7	Thanks for joining me.
1:18.0	I wanted to talk about the title of your podcast a bit of optimism because it's something
1:22.8	I think about all the time.
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