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#485 - Susan Cain - Why Sensitive People Enjoy Feeling Sad
Modern Wisdom
Is It Culturally Novel to Have Such a Obsession With Positive Thinking?
Suh: Is it culturally novel to have such a obsession with positivity and wanting everything to be okay? Suh: There are cultures in which smiling is seen as being, um, kind of suspect. You're more supposed to show a stiff upper lip and a kind of resolve - you're never supposed to be earnest says Suh. "Coming over here is very interesting to see people imagine that relationship to the difficult," writes Suh.
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