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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

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By (author): Adam Grant Sheryl Sandberg

In 2015 Sheryl Sandbergs husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly at the age of forty-eight. Sandberg and her two young children were devastated, and she was certain that their lives would never have real joy or meaning again.

Just weeks later, Sandberg was talking with a friend about the first father-child activity without a father. They came up with a plan for someone to fill in. But I want Dave, she cried. Her friend put his arm around her and said, Option A is not available. So lets just kick the shit out of Option B.

Everyone experiences some form of Option B. We all deal with loss: jobs lost, loves lost, lives lost. The question is not whether these things will happen but how we face them when they do.

Thoughtful, honest, revealing and warm, OPTION B weaves Sandbergs experiences coping with adversity with new findings from Adam Grant and other social scientists. The book features stories of people who recovered from personal and professional hardship, including illness, injury, divorce, job loss, sexual assault and imprisonment. These people did more than recovermany of them became stronger.

OPTION B offers compelling insights for dealing with hardships in our own lives and helping others in crisis. It turns out that post-traumatic growth is commoneven after the most devastating experiences many people dont just bounce back but actually bounce forward. And pre-traumatic growth is also possible: people can build resilience even if they have not experienced tragedy. Sandberg and Grant explore how we can raise strong children, create resilient communities and workplaces, and find meaning, love and joy in our lives.

Daves death changed me in very profound ways, Sandberg writes. I learned about the depths of sadness and the brutality of loss. But I also learned that when life sucks you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface and breathe again.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 166g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Apr 2019
  • Publisher: Ebury Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780753548295

About Adam GrantSheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg (Author) SHERYL SANDBERG is chief operating officer at Facebook and international best-selling author of Lean In: Women Work and the Will to Lead. Prior to Facebook she was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google. She previously served as chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department and began her career as an economist with the World Bank. She received B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University. Sandberg serves on the boards of Facebook The Walt Disney Company Survey Monkey ONE and Women for Women International and chairs the board of LeanIn.Org.Adam Grant (Author) ADAM GRANT is a psychologist and Whartons top-rated professor. As theNew York Timesbest-selling author ofOriginals and Give and Take he is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning and live more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the worlds twenty-five most influential management thinkers and received distinguished scholarly achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. He serves as a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times. Grant earned his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

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