05653cam a2200673 i 4500 1290246043 OCoLC 20230315101016.0 211227s2022 nyua e b 001 0 eng 2021053380 9780451499783 hardcover 0451499786 hardcover 9780451499806 electronic book (OCoLC)1290246043 Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975 AJM pcc Cain, Susan, https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011000338 author 13076 Bittersweet : how sorrow and longing make us whole / Susan Cain First edition New York : Crown, [2022] xxxiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-293) and index Introduction: The power of bittersweet -- Part I. Sorrow and longing: how can we transform pain into creativity, transcendence, and love?. What is sadness good for? -- Why do we long for "perfect" and unconditional love? (And what does this have to do with our love of sad songs, rainy days, and even the divine?) -- Is creativity associated with sorrow, longing--and transcendence? -- How should we cope with lost love? -- Part II. Winners and losers: how can we live and work authentically in a "tyranny of positivity"?. How did a nation founded on so much heartache turn into a culture of normative smiles? -- How can we transcend enforced positivity in the workplace, and beyond? -- Part III. Mortality, impermanence, and grief: how should we live, knowing that we and everyone we love will die?. Should we try to live forever? -- Should we try to "get over" grief and impermanence? -- Do we inherit the pain of our parents and ancestors? And, if so, can we transform it generations later? -- Coda: How to go home "With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death-bitter and sweet-are forever paired. A song in a minor key, an elegiac poem, or even a touching television commercial all can bring us to this sublime, even holy, state of mind-and, ultimately, to greater kinship with our fellow humans. But bittersweetness is not, as we tend to think, just a momentary feeling or event. It's also a way of being, a storied heritage. Our artistic and spiritual traditions--amplified by recent scientific and management research--teach us its power. Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain. If we don't acknowledge our own sorrows and longings, she says, we can end up inflicting them on others via abuse, domination, or neglect. But if we realize that all humans know--or will know--loss and suffering, we can turn toward each other. And we can learn to transform our own pain into creativity, transcendence, and connection. At a time of profound discord and personal anxiety, Bittersweet brings us together in deep and unexpected ways"-- Publisher's description Grief. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057330 Desire. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037214 13077 Melancholy. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083364 13078 Self-actualization (Psychology) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119713 8296 Self-realization. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119788 2250 Grief. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006117 13079 Depressive Disorder. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003866 13080 Chagrin 13081 Désir 13082 Mélancolie 13083 Réalisation de soi 13084 grief. aat melancholy. aat 13085 PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions. bisacsh 13086 SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General. bisacsh 13087 Desire. fast (OCoLC)fst00891351 13077 Grief. fast (OCoLC)fst00947883 13079 Melancholy. fast (OCoLC)fst01015651 13078 Self-actualization (Psychology) fast (OCoLC)fst01111481 8296 Self-realization. fast (OCoLC)fst01111892 2250 Grief. sears 13079 Loss (Psychology) sears Desire. sears 13077 SELF-HELP / Spiritual. bisacsh 13088 Self-help publications. fast (OCoLC)fst01941328 5712 Self-help publications. lcgft https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2016026102 5712 Livres de croissance personnelle. rvmgf 13089 Online version: Cain, Susan. Bittersweet. New York : Crown, [2022] 9780451499806 (DLC) 2021053381 .b173544319 ddc BOOK 28702 28702 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2023-03-17 28.00 2 155.2 CAIN 64181 2023-04-20 2023-04-12 2023-03-15 BOOK 1