Bittersweet Summary (Susan Cain) — Why Sadness, Longing & Sorrow Are Actually Good Emotions 😭

This is a book summary of Bittersweet by Susain Cain.
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📚 CHAPTERS

0:00 - Introduction
2:15 - Top 3 Lessons
2:57 - Lesson 1: Good feelings have bad feelings attached to them, and if you reject one, you reject both.
5:08 - Lesson 2: The Western world is too bent on positivity because it constantly thinks in “winners” and “losers.”
7:37 - Lesson 3: Our sense of mortality heightens as we age, and this ironically makes us happier.

📚 DESCRIPTION

Bittersweet explains where emotions like sorrow, longing, and sadness come from and what their purpose in our lives is, as well as helping us deal with grief, loss, and our own mortality.

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