Poet Maggie Smith on embracing ambiguity
Worklife with Adam Grant
The importance of living comfortably with ambiguity and emotional ambivalence
Living in the gray is where poetry happens and where most relationships thrive. Trying to make everything black and white leads to suffering. Embracing ambiguity and emotional ambivalence is key to living comfortably, understanding that pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
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