Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022-03-31
Books mentioned on #583: Susan Cain on Transforming Pain, Building Your Emotional Resilience, Exploring Sufi Wisdom, Tapping into Bittersweet Songs, and Seeking the Shards of Light
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Tim Ferriss discussed Quiet by Susan Cain. Susan Cain discussed Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon Editors.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Quiet
Quiet by Susan Cain is a compelling exploration of the power of introverts in a society that continually undervalues quiet traits in favor of a loud, boisterous extrovert ideal.
Discussed“and quiet the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking which spent eight years on the new york times bestseller list and has been translated into 40 languages”
Where to get it
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Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists
Discussed“it was like art is the highest form of hope”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (11) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Quiet Journal
“susan is the author of quiet journal”
Passing Quiet Power
“quiet power the secret strength of introverts”
Plugged Bittersweet
“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”
Plugged Bittersweet
“bittersweet i have been feeling for my entire life”
Plugged Bittersweet
“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”
Plugged Bittersweet
“like i in every culture you find it and i i talk about a lot of them in the book”
Plugged Bittersweet
“one of the studies i talk about in my book was done by two people named jason kanoff and laura madden”
Plugged Bittersweet
“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”
Plugged Bittersweet
“and i think i even quoted this one in bittersweet”
Plugged Quiet
“anything come to mind with quiet the book i wrote about the power of introverts”
Passing The Screwtape Letters
“i read a lot of his work including the screwtape letters”