Lincton presents ibrufus griscom. And this is the next big idea, smile though your heart is smile even though it hurts. i've been thinking lately about this song, ridden by charley chaplin and made famous by natkin cole. You listen to the lyrics, if you smile through yourr fear and sorrow, smile and mayy be to morro you see the sun come shining throughgh fo. It kind of sums up the modern american disposition,. what susan cane calls our culture of enormative sunshine.
What do we lose when we avoid sorrow and chase empty delights, when we mask our pain and feign cheerfulness, when we profess to have no regrets and insist on turning every frown upside down? Those questions are at the heart of two new books by our curators Susan Cain (“Bittersweet”) and Daniel Pink (“The Power of Regret”). Today on the show, they sit down with Rufus to swap notes on the writing process, share what they’ve learned from each other, and imagine what the world might look like if we all learned how to embrace negative emotions.
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