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Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
About the book
After the sudden death of her husband, Dave Goldberg, Sheryl Sandberg was certain her children and she would never again know pure joy. Adam Grant, her friend and a Wharton psychologist, told her that people can take concrete steps to recover from shattering experiences. Resilience, the book holds, is not fixed but can be built like a muscle. The book pairs Sandberg's account of her grief and isolation, drawn partly from her journal, with Grant's research on finding strength in adversity. It also follows people who came through job loss, illness, natural disasters, sexual assault and war, and covers how to help others in crisis, show compassion to oneself, raise strong children and build resilient families, communities and workplaces.
Ee Ling Lim, CEO of SmarterMe, described it as a book about resilience and wished such a book had existed when she was younger, recalling that she lost her father at 18.
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Ee Ling Lim (CEO/SmarterMe)
This book is about resilience, and I only wish there was such a book when I was younger. I was 18 when my dad passed away and it was something that I didn't talk about because I was so afraid of opening the floodgates. It hit me hard, the day my daughter commented that I didn't seem to miss my dad - because I never talked about him.
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