Discover Your Capacity to Create, Connect & Love – Susan Cain : 952

<p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE</strong>™<strong>...</strong></p><p>...you'll learn some surprising lessons sorrow and longing can teach you about creativity, connection and love.&nbsp;You’ll find out why longing isn’t passive—as most people think—but actually “momentum in disguise.”</p><p>Author&nbsp;Susan Cain combines research, the stories of others, and memoir to&nbsp;explain how sadness can be your superpower. “Bittersweetness is the hidden source of our moon shots, masterpieces, and love stories,” she says in her newest book,&nbsp;<a href="https://susancain.net/book/bittersweet/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Bittersweet: "How Sorrow And Longing Make Us Whole”</a>.</p><p>Longing can improve your creativity and fuel a drive to express yourself. Longing coupled with pain can help you to connect to others and provide a common ground that enhances compassion and helps you feel less alone in your troubles.&nbsp;</p><p>Instead of hiding or shying away from feelings like sadness and longing, Susan encourages you to embrace them as part of who you are, and part of what it means to be human.&nbsp;This conversation gets into:</p><ul><li>How bittersweet differs from melancholy</li><li>How Acceptance Commitment Therapy helps you manage the “bitter of life”&nbsp;</li><li>How sadness is the ultimate bonding agent</li><li>How the concept of “winners” and “losers” changed over time</li><li>How to live and work authentically in an environment of enforced positivity</li><li>How to embrace deep reflection and ask yourself: "What. Are. You. Longing. For?"</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Special offer for The Human Upgrade listeners</strong>: Go deeper into the topics of&nbsp;<strong>Bittersweet</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Quiet</strong>&nbsp;with Susan’s 30-day interactive online courses.&nbsp;Go to&nbsp;<a href="https://courses.susancain.net/bittersweet-checkout/?add-to-cart=948" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.susancain.net</a><a href="https://courses.susancain.ne