
Bittersweet: An Audio E-Course by Susan Cain
The Next Big Idea
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The Meaning of Life
Dr. William Breitbart is the chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He works with dying cancer patients, not to cure them, but to give them a sense of meaning as they have left. When faced with our own impermanence, Karstenson has found, our surroundings become precious and we savor them. The key to fulfillment is learning to love who you are, which is unconditional and unceasing, rather than what you've done.
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