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Bittersweet: Finding Purpose in Sorrow, with Susan Cain

Intelligence Squared

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Resilience Is Not Resilient, Is It?

i wonder if maybe we live in a modern culture that's resistant to what it might take to be the weakness of bitter sweetness. I think there is nothing contradictory between cele ing resilience and wishing it for ourselves and everyone around us. It's when we shut out anything that has to do with our sorrows and longings, that we actually become less resilient. We end up coming undone in ways that we can't fully understand.

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