DevanJensen

After diagnosis of a serious medical condition in a beloved family member, I began reading   Option B , by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant .   This book   shares stories of people who’ve dealt with a traumatic event, helping us face adversity, become more resilient, and find joy again  after life punches us in the face. When she was 45 years old, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and mother of two, found her husband collapsed on the floor of the gym. He never woke again. Sheryl was devastated. Why him?   Why so young? How could she have avoided this? Two weeks later, as she prepared for what would have been a father-child activity, she cried in front of a friend,  “But I want Dave!”  Her friend replied:  “Option A is not available. So let’s make the most out of Option B.”  Sooner or later in our lives, we all lose Option A. This book is about learning to thrive with  Option B . We can develop our resilience muscles, or “strength and speed of our resistance to adversity” (10).  H