Find Happiness in Your Melancholy | Susan Cain

Susan Cain (0:00)

Follow your longing where it's telling you to go. That which you're longing for is one of your best guides as to what the center of your life should be.

Michael Gervais (0:18)

Welcome, I'm Dr. Michael Gervais, and this is the Finding Mastery Podcast, where we learn from people who challenge the edges and the reaches of the human experience in business and sport and science and life. We're pulling back the curtain to explore how they have committed to mastering both their craft and their minds in an effort to express their potential.

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Now, this week's conversation is with Susan Cain, the author of the best sellers Quiet Journal, Quiet Power, The Secret Strengths of Introverts, and Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

So, Quiet has been translated into 40 languages, spent eight years on the New York Times best seller list. How about it? And was named the number one best book of the year by Fast Company Magazine, which also named Susan one of its most creative people in business. It's awesome. And I'm stoked to have her on and share her insights with you.