Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy (Unabridged) Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy (Unabridged)

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks
 
After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “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 take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.

Option B
combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy.

Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. “I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend replied, “Option A is not available,” and then promised to help her make the most of Option B.

We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
ED
Elisa Donovan
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
06:14
hr min
RELEASED
2017
April 24
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
382.6
MB

Customer Reviews

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Sheryl’s Diary

I did six chapters, trying to give the book a fair shake and sometimes the first or even second chapter doesn’t give you enough to hook you into a whole reading. After six I was ready to give up and as I thought about the book, the context, the genre, I thought if you can be helped, taught or motivated by reading someone else’s diary, you will probably find value in this book. For me, listening to someone tell every single detail about losing their husband, is of little value unless the story is tied strongly and smartly to psychology and self improvement, woven with ah-ha concepts. As an audiobook there were moments where I felt I was sitting in a café eavesdropping on two women in the booth behind me, going on and on about the same thing

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