Gash: Different things different times of life, which i i think is what happens with life. I'll tell you about one that happened for me kind of earlier in my life. So i used to be, before i became a writer, i was acorp lawyer,. And there came a day when the senior partnerlike knocked on my office door and sat down th a great big sigh, informed me that i would ofbe making partner. You know, it seemed to me like a big catastrophe, except that i ended up asking to take leave of absence; two hours later, i was gone from the firm. Gash: At that point, the obsession completely fell away, and i
Susan Cain shot to fame in 2012 with her international bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, in which she urged society to cultivate space for the undervalued introverts among us. Now she's back with another book asking us to reassess how we think about self expression: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. The book argues that by embracing the bittersweet at the heart of life – the sense that joy and sorrow are always paired – we can gain a heightened appreciation of the wonder and beauty of our own personal experience and throughout wider culture too. Our host for the discussion is writer, academic and broadcaster, Shahidha Bari.
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