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Susan Cain

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Flow

“So I was talking earlier about the psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He famously wrote a book about flow. It's literally called Flow. And flow is the state of mind you get into when you're totally engaged in an activity, and you're completely absorbed by it, and you're feeling neither bored nor anxious, you're just in it. And the book just describes all the research on this date and what it is, and it completely changed my life, so I recommend that one all the time. And also The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, who was just a great mythologist, and completely fascinating, and-”

Lenny's Podcast · 16 Mar 2025

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The Power of Myth

“So I was talking earlier about the psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He famously wrote a book about flow. It's literally called Flow. And flow is the state of mind you get into when you're totally engaged in an activity, and you're completely absorbed by it, and you're feeling neither bored nor anxious, you're just in it. And the book just describes all the research on this date and what it is, and it completely changed my life, so I recommend that one all the time. And also The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, who was just a great mythologist, and completely fascinating, and-”

Lenny's Podcast · 16 Mar 2025

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01 / recommendation

Recommends Flow. Recommends The Power of Myth.

“So I was talking earlier about the psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He famously wrote a book about flow. It's literally called Flow. And flow is the state of mind you get into when you're totally engaged in an activity, and you're completely absorbed by it, and you're feeling neither bored nor anxious, you're just in it. And the book just describes all the research on this date and what it is, and it completely changed my life, so I recommend that one all the time. And also The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, who was just a great mythologist, and completely fascinating, and-”
Speaker
Susan Cain
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

02 / uncertainty

I took like seven years, and I just sent in a book proposal to my agent two days ago for another book, which will undoubtedly take five, or six, or seven years. And I have wondered how I'm going to do it together with the Substack, but I don't know.

“I took like seven years, and I just sent in a book proposal to my agent two days ago for another book, which will undoubtedly take five, or six, or seven years. And I have wondered how I'm going to do it together with the Substack, but I don't know.”
Speaker
Susan Cain
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / belief

I guess I would say the Substack that I'm doing is my baby and my labor of love, so if you want to partake of it, I would love to have you there.

“I guess I would say the Substack that I'm doing is my baby and my labor of love, so if you want to partake of it, I would love to have you there.”
Speaker
Susan Cain
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / belief

I think one of the main hacks to understand about how we humans relate to each other is how much we are picking up unconsciously, a thousand different cues that we're sending out without even knowing that we are.

“I think one of the main hacks to understand about how we humans relate to each other is how much we are picking up unconsciously, a thousand different cues that we're sending out without even knowing that we are.”
Speaker
Susan Cain
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / belief

I think that the most recent study I've seen shows the most successful salespeople are ambiverts, because they're extroverted enough to close the deal, they're introverted enough to do the listening that good salesmanship usually requires.

“I think that the most recent study I've seen shows the most successful salespeople are ambiverts, because they're extroverted enough to close the deal, they're introverted enough to do the listening that good salesmanship usually requires.”
Speaker
Susan Cain
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / evaluation

Those kinds of questions tell you a lot about what your true preferences are. And I stress that phrase true preferences because for introverts in an extroverted culture, we spend so much time kind of unconsciously adapting to what we think our preferences are supposed to be, that I hear from many people that they kind of have lost touch with how they actually prefer to spend their time.

“Those kinds of questions tell you a lot about what your true preferences are. And I stress that phrase true preferences because for introverts in an extroverted culture, we spend so much time kind of unconsciously adapting to what we think our preferences are supposed to be, that I hear from many people that they kind of have lost touch with how they actually prefer to spend their time.”
Speaker
Susan Cain
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / preference

Because on that score, most of us actually become more introverted with time. And I don't know if you would describe yourself this way, but I remember for me, even though I was a shy person in high school, I would come home from school and spend my whole evening talking to all my friends on the phone.

“Because on that score, most of us actually become more introverted with time. And I don't know if you would describe yourself this way, but I remember for me, even though I was a shy person in high school, I would come home from school and spend my whole evening talking to all my friends on the phone.”
Speaker
Susan Cain
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / preference

e. I prefer to play in a mellower way. The key for both of those kids is to understand that they will tend to have a longer runway that they travel down before they take off and fly.

“e. I prefer to play in a mellower way. The key for both of those kids is to understand that they will tend to have a longer runway that they travel down before they take off and fly.”
Speaker
Susan Cain
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / commitment

I think that's part of the reason I take as long as I do to write them, because I'm like dreading the promotional period, so I'm just putting it off.

“I think that's part of the reason I take as long as I do to write them, because I'm like dreading the promotional period, so I'm just putting it off.”
Speaker
Susan Cain
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / evaluation

I find it to be so true also. And also even just for attending networking events, like if you've done something valuable, those events are much easier because people want to talk to you about whatever that thing is, and you want to talk to them about their thing, and then all the other things that you didn't even know about each other.

“I find it to be so true also. And also even just for attending networking events, like if you've done something valuable, those events are much easier because people want to talk to you about whatever that thing is, and you want to talk to them about their thing, and then all the other things that you didn't even know about each other.”
Speaker
Susan Cain
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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