The Quiet Life with Susan Cain

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August 2026

Our Candlelight Chat is TOMORROW, Sunday, from 1-2 pm EST, on Zoom
We’re hosting the one and only Kate Bowler, bestselling author of Joyful Anyway (on the topic of feeling joyful, whether or not your life is going well)
 • Susan Cain
Our next Candlelight Chat is this Sunday, with special guest, the very warm and fabulous Kate Bowler
“We can't always be happy. But we can be joyful, anyway.”
 • Susan Cain
Paris is for Introverts
Have you ever wished for a guide to one of the world’s great travel destinations — Paris — from the POV of introverts?
 • Silent Book Club
A simple path to a richer, deeper form of happiness
On duende
 • Susan Cain
In an age of machines, what makes life worth living?
Iain McGilchrist, on "Resonance"
 • Susan Cain
Sacred Humanism: A New Vision for the Humanities
How to bring the students back.
 • Susan Cain
Are You Building a Writing Life?
Here are some of my secrets.
 • Susan Cain
How to Thrive as a "Highly Sensitive Person"
And, how to read, and love, the "Peace of Wild Things". All this is in our Candlelight Chat replay, which you can watch here.
 • Susan Cain
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