Option B

Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

De: Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Narrado por: Elisa Donovan

#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.

Inspired

This book has inspired me to live life to the fullest . It has taught me to be a better spouse, mother, daughter and friend .

Powerful

Everyone needs more lessons on resilience. This story has full of helpful guidance, no matter what type of situation of adversity you are experience. Touching and actionable.

Extraordinary narration

This book moved me more than I could've expected, due in large part to Eliza Donovan's incredible narration. Her tone, sensitivity, and personality inform every moment of this excellent storytelling. The tone struck between grief and resilience is inspiring, motivating, and deeply informative, andexercise of compassion and empathy.

Permission to Move

This book was suggested at a time of transition in my life. it gave me the tools to accept life and all that comes with it and recognize that life sometimes hurl the need for an Option B. It validated the need to experience the hurt life can cause but it resonated resoundingly that it's not a permanent status if you have courage to move while accepting what has occurred. Life's pain hurts to the core but recovering is a purposeful choice.

I really enjoy listening Sheryl

I liked lean in, but Option B was quite a surprise. I have to thanks Sheryl to share her life with us and to launch her message to the word.