Ep 246 Susan Cain
Episode Description
For episode 246, Susan Cain makes her first appearance on the Metta Hour. Susan is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, and Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, which was also an Oprah Book Club selection. She has spent the last twenty years exploring a particular realm of human nature: the quiet, the sensitive, the thoughtful, the bittersweet. Susan’s books have been translated into 40+ languages, and her record-smashing TED talks have been viewed over 50 million times on TED and YouTube combined. Susan is the host of the bestselling Audible series, A Quiet Life in Seven Steps, and The Quiet Life Online Community. Her Kindred Letters newsletter is read by people in all 193 countries and all 50 American states.
In this conversation Susan and Sharon discuss:
• How Susan approaches writing
• VIA character strength test
• Does great art have to come from great pain
• How suffering brings us together
• Susan embracing her “differences”
• The Quiet Life Community
• Why sadness is a bridge to connection
• The Dalai Lama the Darwinist
• Moral elevation
• Dipa Ma telling Sharon she would teach
• Leonard Coen as Susan’s patron saint
• Beauty in the broken world
• Never be ashamed of your suffering
• The history of the word “loser”
• Susan learning Lovingkindness meditation
• Lovingkindness and boundaries
• Chocolate and Brussel Sprouts
Additional Resources
Susan closes the conversation with a guided reflection. You can join Susan’s Quiet Life Community right here.
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