Susan Cain

Jan 17, 2025 | on.substack.com | Chris Best |Dan Harris |Sharon McMahon |Susan Cain

is a bestselling author, the host of the 10% Happier podcast, and a former ABC news anchor. He went live with Substack CEO Chris Best yesterday to share the creative ways he’s been using live video in the Substack app, and offered recommendations for others hoping to take advantage of the feature. Here, we’re sharing a few highlights from their conversation. Learn more about going live on Substack:: This feature that we’re using right now, Substack Live, it’s a new thing for us.

Nov 25, 2024 | thequietlife.net | Susan Cain

“Wow, I really hate small talk.”“Do I seem awkward right now?”“How long ‘til I can go home?”If these are the thoughts that fill your head at holiday parties, then today’s Kindred Letter is for you: it’s meant to give you ideason how to have deep and satisfying conversations with strangers and acquaintances - and, how to handle social anxiety (which has got to be one of the most uncomfortable emotions human can experience). Here you go:1. Ask deep questions.

Nov 22, 2024 | toddkashdan.substack.com | Todd Kashdan |Susan Cain

Amid the frenzy of being a working parent, I've embraced a simple rule: if my three daughters ask me to play, I do everything possible to say yes.

Nov 18, 2024 | thequietlife.net | Susan Cain

EncounterWe were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in the darkness. And suddenly a hare ran across the road. One of us pointed to it with his hand. That was long ago. Today neither of them is alive. Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture. O my love, where are they, where are they goingThe flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles. I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder.

Nov 15, 2024 | thequietlife.net | Susan Cain |Scott Kaufman

“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there.