For episode 246, Susan Cain makes her first appearance on the Metta Hour!
Susan is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Quiet, and Bittersweet, which was also an Oprah Book Club selection. She has spent the last twenty years exploring a particular realm of human nature: the quiet, the sensitive, the thoughtful, the bittersweet. Susan’s record-smashing TED talks have been viewed over 50 million times and she the host of the Quiet Life online community.
In this conversation, Susan and Sharon discuss:
- How Susan approaches writing
- VIA character strength test
- Does great art have to come from great pain
- How suffering brings us together
- Susan embracing her “differences”
- The Quiet Life Community
- Why sadness is a bridge to connection
- The Dalai Lama the Darwinist
- Moral elevation
- Dipa Ma telling Sharon she would teach
- Leonard Coen as Susan’s patron saint
- Beauty in the broken world
- Never be ashamed of your suffering
- The history of the word “loser”
- Susan learning Lovingkindness meditation
- Lovingkindness and boundaries
- Chocolate and Brussels sprouts
Susan closes the conversation with a guided reflection. You can join Susan’s Quiet Life Community right here.
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