Vishen Lakhiani says melancholy is beautiful and worth feeling, not pushing away. He cites Pixar's Inside Out and WandaVision to show how sadness can be a superpower, and calls the practice of holding both joy and sorrow together "blissipline."
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I'm not happy. I'm neither am I sad or depressed. I'm just melancholy. And it's a beautiful feeling. And we all feel that sometimes. If you've ever seen the Pixar movie Inside out, it shows that sadness can be a superpower. You can be sad when you miss someone. You can be sad when you're grieving. There's a beautiful quote from the Disney show WandaVision. What is grief but love persisting? The goal isn't to push away sadness. Rather, the goal is this, is to remember this. When we are showing up with people, when we are showing up at work, the thing that matters is the concept of blissipline, and that is having the discipline to ensure that you are nurturing your positive emotions.