Modern Wisdom

#485 - Susan Cain - Why Sensitive People Enjoy Feeling Sad

Jun 11, 2022

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The Price That You Pay for Having the Thing That You Really Love

02:55

What Is the Relationship Between Longing and Creativity?

02:48

You're Just Playing a Role

03:18

Introduction

5min

The Biggest Social Shift

2min

The Introverts Want Time Off

5min

Is There a Specific Pathway That Music Induces This Emotion?

3min

The Bitter Sweet Quis

2min

Are There Some People That Don't Get It?

2min

The Price That You Pay for Having the Thing That You Really Love

3min

What Is the Relationship Between Longing and Creativity?

3min

How to Be Creative When You're Depressed

4min

10.

Is the Original Word for Suffering, Duca?

3min

11.

Is There an Equal to the Hidden Introversion?

2min

12.

The Courage and the Bravery That You Need of Someone to Embrace This

4min

13.

Lady Fortune, She's Now Her Time to Take Away

2min

14.

The Tyrony of Positivity

2min

15.

Is It Culturally Novel to Have Such a Obsession With Positive Thinking?

3min

16.

I Love the Moon, My Mom Loves the Moon

2min

17.

The Moon Is Not the Apogee, It's Something Other

2min

18.

Is There a Bitter Sweet Experience in Grief?

2min

19.

The Sham on the Olive

3min

20.

Introversion

3min

21.

You're Just Playing a Role

3min

22.

The Immanence of Death

3min

23.

Transhumanism and Impermanence

3min

24.

Is Death What Gives Life Meaning?

2min

25.

Is There Any Immortality?

4min

26.

Susan Can, Ladies and Gentlemen, I Really Appreciate You

2min

Susan Cain is a best-selling author and speaker.

There’s a tyranny of positivity in the modern world. Talking about emotions like longing and sorrow are not usually encouraged. And yet tons of people feel like this and hearing others tell us about their melancholy brings us closer to them, so how can we integrate bittersweet emotions into our lives and what can they teach us about ourselves?

Expect to learn whether the world has become better for introverts, why sad music seems to make us happy, whether people are genetically predisposed to feeling bittersweet emotions, how to deal with impermanence in life when everyone we love is going to die, why I felt sad after looking at the moon and much more…

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