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Why bittersweet feelings underscore life’s magnificence | Susan Cain

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Life is a continuing state of each pleasure and sorrow, darkish and light-weight, bitter and candy. In a meditative dialog, writer Susan Cain explores how being attuned to the bittersweetness of life — and being totally current for each the glad instances and the unhappy instances — helps us navigate love and loss and connect with the “insane magnificence” of the world. (This dialog, hosted by TED present affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was a part of an unique TED Membership occasion. Go to ted.com/membership to change into a TED Member.)

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Life is a continuing state of each pleasure and sorrow, darkish and light-weight, bitter and candy. In a meditative dialog, writer Susan Cain explores how being attuned to the bittersweetness of life — and being totally current for each the glad instances and the unhappy instances — helps us navigate love and loss and connect with the “insane magnificence” of the world. (This dialog, hosted by TED present affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was a part of an unique TED Membership occasion. Go to ted.com/membership to change into a TED Member.)

Take a look at Bittersweet: Practices and Reflections, an interactive course delivered in brief, digestible bursts, which you’ll entry by way of SMS or WhatsApp.

Begin a Bittersweet E-book Membership. Use this Bittersweet Studying Group Information to get you began.

Take heed to the companion playlist to Bittersweet on Spotify.

Along with her viral discuss from TED2012 and her mega-bestseller “Quiet,” Susan Cain urged society to domesticate house for the undervalued, indispensable introverts amongst us. Now, together with her new bestseller “Bittersweet,” she’s again to discover the stunning classes sorrow and longing educate us about creativity, connection and love.

Whitney Pennington Rodgers is an award-winning journalist and media skilled.

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