Book · 2022
Bittersweet
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Bittersweet speaks to something that's universal in all of us, not just to that subset, but on some level to everybody.
Rich Roll · The Rich Roll Podcast · Aug 2022 Listen at 5:02 What they say about it
- Latest book by Susan Cain5
- Explores sorrow and longing“how sorrow and longing make us whole”3
- Discusses melancholy and sadness“this idea of melancholy”3
The best things said about it
Her new book is called Bittersweet and it is about allowing ourselves to feel sadness to grieve that it is in many ways healing.
I really like Susan Cain's book Bittersweet where she talks about this idea of melancholy that some people are just wired differently.
Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic · Oct 2024 Her most recent book that I highly recommend you go and order right away and you're going to want to especially during and after this conversation is called Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.
Jay Shetty On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Sep 2022 And really the subtext of Bittersweet is for all of us to do that and appreciate, all the colors of life.
Rich Roll The Rich Roll Podcast · Aug 2022 Susan Kane who I love her new book is called bittersweet and she's sort of talking about how Melancholy is that kind of depressive outlet.
Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic · May 2022 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Bittersweet by Susan Cain is a nonfiction exploration of melancholy, sorrow, and longing, examining how these emotions can serve as sources of creativity, connection, and healing. On The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday recommended the book to explore the idea of melancholy as a source of greatness. Amy Cuddy brought up the book on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett to discuss the healing nature of allowing oneself to feel sadness. Jay Shetty strongly recommended the book on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, urging the audience to order a copy during and after the conversation. On EconTalk, Russ Roberts mentioned the book while discussing human suffering and the Jewish perspective on the problem of evil, and also featured Susan Cain as a guest to discuss the happiness of melancholy. Rich Roll introduced the book on The Rich Roll Podcast to frame a conversation about the quiet state of being and the great ache that binds people together.
Every mention
Jay Shetty Now, her most recent book that I highly recommend you go and order right away and you're going to want to e… 2
Recommended
“Now, her most recent book that I highly recommend you go and order right away and you're going to want to especially during and after this conversation is called bittersweet how sorrow and longing make us whole.”
Recommended
“And for everyone who's been listening and watching, I hope you go and grab a copy of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.”
Ryan Holiday I really like Susan Kane's book Bittersweet where she talks about this idea of melancholy that some people… 2
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“I really like Susan Kane's book Bittersweet where she talks about this idea of melancholy that some people are just wired differently”
Discussed
“Susan Kane who I love her new book is called bittersweet and she's sort of talking about how Melancholy is that kind of depressive outlet”
Amy Cuddy her new book is called Bittersweet and it is about allowing ourselves to feel sadness to grieve that it is… 1
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“her new book is called Bittersweet and it is about allowing ourselves to feel sadness to grieve that it is in many ways healing”
Rich Roll The result of which is "Bittersweet." her number one New York Times bestselling book that ponders this quie… 4
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“The result of which is "Bittersweet." her number one New York Times bestselling book that ponders this quiet state of being”
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“Well, the occasion of this conversation is your latest book "Bittersweet."”
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“"Bittersweet" speaks to something that's universal in all of us, not just to that subset, but on some level to everybody.”
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“And really the subtext of bittersweet is for all of us to do that and appreciate, all the colors of life”
Russ Roberts I mean did that did I did an episode um with uh Susan Kaine on her book Bittersweet and for me the Odyssey… 2
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“I mean did that did I did an episode um with uh Susan Kaine on her book Bittersweet and for me the Odyssey especially the Jewish perspective on it which um uh there are there are a zillion pages of Jewish grappling with this with this fact...”
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“her first book was quiet her most recent book and the subject of today's conversation is Bittersweet how sorrow and longing make us whole”
Chris Williamson It's like yo, this is a a bittersweet emotion that I'm feeling. It's something kind of awe and dread and jo… 1
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“It's like yo, this is a a bittersweet emotion that I'm feeling. It's something kind of awe and dread and joy and sorrow and longing all kind of thrown together in this visual representation”
Other mentions (16: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“her book is Bittersweet Susan thanks for being part of econ talk”
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“Or I think of of someone who I talked about um or who I quoted really in Bittersweet.”
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“There's there's a a Japanese Buddhist poet who I I talk about in Bittersweet.”
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“I don't know where this comes from in me, but I would say when I wrote "Quiet" and when I wrote "Bittersweet," I thought that I was writing two really different books.”
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“like to endure loss in your own family. Yeah, that was an interesting thing because people assume that I wrote "Bittersweet,"”
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“The letters that I'm getting from people who have read "Bittersweet" are so similar to the letters I've gotten all these years from "Quiet" readers.”
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“Well, it's very interesting in that I thought that talking about sorrow and longing in this book Bittersweet, I I thought when I started this project that it was a pretty big departure from what I had done in the past.”
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“and the book Bittersweet is anywhere you usually buy your books.”
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“her newest book which she's been working on for some time and i know because we talked about it last time bittersweet subtitle how sorrow and longing make us whole”
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“bittersweet i have been feeling for my entire life”
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“and in the book you can't really explore this idea of bittersweetness without then talking also about sorrow and longing and grief and everything that you were just getting at”
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“like i in every culture you find it and i i talk about a lot of them in the book”
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“one of the studies i talk about in my book was done by two people named jason kanoff and laura madden”
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“because originally it was just because i went to this seminar for bereavement counselors because i was just curious to learn more about that and what i found was we were each asked to tell a story of loss that i ended up devoting a whole chapter of the book to it”
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“and i think i even quoted this one in bittersweet”
Passing
“you know there's another book this season um called Bittersweet i'm pretty sure and i'm sort of feeling a little bit sorry for that person although maybe it'll be like you know uh the author of Between Shades of Gray when 50 Shades of Gray was thing and she'll get a little bonus push there”