The book tells a lot of stuff I've been reading and writing about lately but there's the pressure to be positive. It is you have one thing less than an A on your transcript and cross these schools off your list it just seems like a terrible standard, not actually encouraging people to take risk and be vulnerable right? So what is the anecdote for this pressure to be perfect because it occurs to me that some of the most successful people who are willing to like try and fail and their failures were celebrated. Which takes more than 160 characters too right.
Susan Cain is the New York Times bestselling author of Quiet, which changed how the world views introverts forever, and a her latest book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, which reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Susan is also an award-winning keynote speaker who has delivered two TED Talks with millions of views and the founder of Quiet Revolution.
Susan joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss how she began her writing career, her writing process, the value of bittersweet feelings and thinking, and how to fight toxic positivity in work and life.
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