Name: Option b: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding joy
SKU: 48500272
Price: 56.55 NZD
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Author: Sandberg, Sheryl ; Grant, Adam
ISBN: 9781524732684

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Option b: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding joy

Type

Physical Book

Author

Adam Grant

Sheryl Sandberg

Publisher

Knopf

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1x14.7x2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781524732684

Synopsis "Option b: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding joy "

#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.

Adam Grant

(Author)

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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His studies address how to find motivation and meaning and lead more generous and creative lives. Among his clients as a speaker and consultant are Google, the NBA, Bridgewater, and the Gates Foundation. He has been considered one of the world's top ten most influential management thinkers, one of Fortune's 40 under 40, and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He is the author of globally successful books.

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