Option B
Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
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Narrated by:
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Elisa Donovan
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Written by:
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Sheryl Sandberg
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Adam Grant
About this listen
From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the number-one New York Times best-selling 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.
©2017 Sheryl Sandberg (P)2017 Random House AudioYou may also enjoy...
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,087
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 897
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 886
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- Heather
- 2018-01-04
Loved it! wished to hear Sheryl's voice.
Thank you for your candor, vulnerability and strength. A mix of memoirs, stories, and study.
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- MD
- 2024-02-11
Many great perspectives, too much name dropping
I really liked this book and thought it presented many great perspectives and lessons.
I felt that the name dropping and gentle bragging about accomplishments were unnecessary and detracted from the overall message.
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- SK
- 2021-07-28
Bottomline it's about resilience
Very well narrated. an interesting mix between the story of how Sharyl lost her husband and "her" going on. She did mention a little bit all those disadvantaged who lack the support and the money to go on after losing a partner and make new first time experience like watching the launch at SpaceX with Elon Musk. There was a little bit of Adam Grant in every chapter but I was hoping for more. Some chapters sounded like an advertisement for Facebook and there was too much of "we at Facebook".
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- Jennifer MacKintosh
- 2020-10-27
The book I didn't know I needed
I thought this book was going. To be about resilience in business or be a 'professional development' read. Turns out it was emotional compelling and something I needed to listen to when I struggled so hard with losing loved ones in my life. So happy I (accidentally) grabbed this book ...
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-09-24
Lots of Life left to live
For anyone whom has experienced a great loss, this book will help you navigate through and realize that there is life after loss.
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- Shannon Burch
- 2022-12-06
Moving forward
Whether or not you have experienced profound loss or not this book is presented in a way that changes we should approach loss. The story is well told and factual, thought provoking and motivating.
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