A lot of what i've read about this tenage pain, a sense of hopelessness is related to global warming and a sense of kind of serious catastrophes that we're headed towards as as a planet. It seems to me that these benefits of confronting negative emotions also exists for organizations, for companies, for communities, potentially for nations. So i think that post dramatic growth, individually and collectively, is something that we need to take much more seriously. I think it's a very, very promising line of research and a very powerful and transformative idea for all of us. But we still have quite a long way to go.
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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