My Takeaway from Reading Option B

Option B Book Cover

Book: Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Author: Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Option B is not what I thought it would be about.  I thought it would be about what to do when your first plan fails for some reason.  Like plans you consciously made, such as a business plan, trip, etc.

Turns out the book is coming up with an option B for plans you didn’t even think you where making.  Such as assuming your family won’t die or won’t get seriously ill.  It is Sheryl Sandberg’s account of her husbands unexpected passing how she dealt with it.  She talks to others who dealt with death of loved ones and also what research says about dealing with death.  It does focus on other issues such as illness and other major life tragedies but mostly about death.

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