Susan Cain is the bestselling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (2012). Her latest book is Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole (2022). She lives in New York.
Meaning and the good life
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The immortalists have got it wrong – here’s why we need death
The immortalists say beating death will lead to peace. But what if mortality is our bittersweet path to love and harmony?
by Susan Cain