Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1524732680 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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from Harvard University with Phi Beta Kappa honors and his Ph.D. Adam received his B.A. Sheryl received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School. She is also the author of the bestsellers Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead and Lean In for Graduates. She is the founder of the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg F
We will grin, and we will bear it, and we will go back to work too soon and burst into tears in the copy room when confronted by a malevolent stapler (or maybe that’s just me). Fortunately this fear was unfounded. None of us are immune to misfortune and heartbreak. We need to cut ourselves some slack when times get tough, and, as Sandberg discovered, flip the golden rule: When a loved one is in distress, instead of treating them how you would want to be treated, consider how they want to be treated, which may be quite different. But there are things we can do to develop it, so we’re better prepared when adversity strikes. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy--co-authored with psychologist and friend Adam Grant--shows you how Sandberg, and many oth
Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. “I want Dave,” she cried. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can t
Important topic that most people don't know about. I'm not finished but I wanted to chime in right away. I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, part-time teacher at Colorado Christian University, and published author. I live in the Columbine neighborhood and worked with police and firefighters at Ground Zero so healing from trauma is of huge interest to me.I've spent the last four years researching . "Was disappointed in this book." according to Cellodiva. I ordered this book because the blurb on line looked like something that would help me with my journey. I am a widow of 6 months, my husband passed of a fast heart attack. I too, found him in bed and administered CPR to no avail. While I identified with the steps of the author, I could not relate to her presentation. For many of us of limited resour. "AND FINDING JOY, you could say that I felt connected to" according to carilynp. Given that I highlighted a passage in almost every other chapter in Sheryl Sandberg’s OPTION B: FACING ADVERSITY, BUILDING RESILIENCE, AND FINDING JOY, you could say that I felt connected to her and pretty much everything that she had to say. While I haven’t lost a spouse and certainly my life was not upended like hers was, I u