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Podcast: Modern Wisdom
Episode: #485 - Susan Cain - Why Sensitive People Enjoy Feeling Sad
Description: 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 em...