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Bittersweet: Finding Purpose in Sorrow, with Susan Cain
Intelligence Squared
Are There Practical Advantages to Having a Taste of the Bitter Sweet?
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There is an association between this tendency to bitter sweetness and a tendency to creativity. In one study, people who had watched the bitter sweet movies performed the best on creativity tests that were given afterwards. So much of what the creative act is, it's basically, it'sBasically a kind of alchemy. It's like making something out of nothing, or turning x into y. And very often what we're doing is the x that we're trying to turn into y? No, that x is a, starts out as a painful experience of some kind,. Then we try to convert itinto something meaningful or uplifting or beautiful.
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