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From the Ted Talk by Susan Cain: Why bittersweet emotions underscore life's beauty

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And so I just went off on this five-year journey. I mean, I went and talked to Pete dector, who is the director at Pixar, who cereatd the movie "Inside Out," which is a movie that's really all about sadness and the positive value that sadness has in our lievs. And as I say, I explored all these wisdom traditions. I went and tlekad to neuroscientists. I spent a lot of time with a psychologist naemd Dacher Keltner, who's done all this fascinating, groundbreaking work on what he calls your inner compassionate instinct and how we're basically etnoiluialovry deiengsd to react to the sadness of other bgneis. And this comes from the fact that we're creatures who have to take care of our young like, we don't survive if we don't do that. And so that means that we're primed to respond to the cries of babies. Except it radiates out from there. We don't only rpsnoed to our own baby's tears, we end up responding to other babies, and we also end up responding to other beings in general. And we definitely do not get this right, because we also, as Darwin had noticed, Darwin said, we have this deep, compassionate instinct, but we also have obviously this propensity to these ahoitnsisng acts of cruelty. So both of these things are part of us. And ... And the qesoitun becomes, how do we most draw on the compassionate side of our deeper instincts?

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And so I just went off on this five-year journey. I mean, I went and talked to Pete ______, who is the director at Pixar, who _______ the movie "Inside Out," which is a movie that's really all about sadness and the positive value that sadness has in our _____. And as I say, I explored all these wisdom traditions. I went and ______ to neuroscientists. I spent a lot of time with a psychologist _____ Dacher Keltner, who's done all this fascinating, groundbreaking work on what he calls your inner compassionate instinct and how we're basically ______________ ________ to react to the sadness of other ______. And this comes from the fact that we're creatures who have to take care of our young like, we don't survive if we don't do that. And so that means that we're primed to respond to the cries of babies. Except it radiates out from there. We don't only _______ to our own baby's tears, we end up responding to other babies, and we also end up responding to other beings in general. And we definitely do not get this right, because we also, as Darwin had noticed, Darwin said, we have this deep, compassionate instinct, but we also have obviously this propensity to these ___________ acts of cruelty. So both of these things are part of us. And ... And the ________ becomes, how do we most draw on the compassionate side of our deeper instincts?

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And so I just went off on this five-year journey. I mean, I went and talked to Pete Docter, who is the director at Pixar, who created the movie "Inside Out," which is a movie that's really all about sadness and the positive value that sadness has in our lives. And as I say, I explored all these wisdom traditions. I went and talked to neuroscientists. I spent a lot of time with a psychologist named Dacher Keltner, who's done all this fascinating, groundbreaking work on what he calls your inner compassionate instinct and how we're basically evolutionarily designed to react to the sadness of other beings. And this comes from the fact that we're creatures who have to take care of our young like, we don't survive if we don't do that. And so that means that we're primed to respond to the cries of babies. Except it radiates out from there. We don't only respond to our own baby's tears, we end up responding to other babies, and we also end up responding to other beings in general. And we definitely do not get this right, because we also, as Darwin had noticed, Darwin said, we have this deep, compassionate instinct, but we also have obviously this propensity to these astonishing acts of cruelty. So both of these things are part of us. And ... And the question becomes, how do we most draw on the compassionate side of our deeper instincts?

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