畅销书《向前一步》作者、脸书COO的丈夫于2015年5月突然去世，她认为自己和孩子们再也不会有真正纯粹的快乐了。她在书中写道：“我陷入了空虚。巨大的空虚占据了我的心脏、我的肺叶，限制了我思考的能力，甚至呼吸的能力。”她的朋友、沃顿商学院知名心理学家亚当•格兰特告诉她，我们可以采取一定的方法，一步步从支离破碎的不幸与灾难中复原。我们不是生来就拥有复原力的，复原力需要我们在后天培养和提升。
本书将她的个人经历与亚当关于培养复原力的开放性研究结合起来，进行了深入分析及阐述。她向我们敞开心扉，从她发现丈夫猝然倒在健身房的地板上开始，描述了她在丈夫去世后感受到的急性悲伤和极度的孤独。然而，本书并没有局限于她的个人经历，而是从更广泛的层面去探讨我们该如何克服人生中的逆境，包括疾病、失业、性侵、自然灾害、战争、暴力等不幸。同时，来自不同群体的案例也揭示了每个人都可以培养及提升内在坚韧的复原力，并且拥有重获快乐的能力。
复原力源自我们的更深层次的内在，也来自外部的支持。即便经历了毁灭性的打击与不幸，我们仍可能找到更多的人生意义，并且学会感恩，从而获得成长。本书还提供了诸多极具实践性的方法，启发我们积极地帮助他人，培养自己的同理心，乐善好施，教育出更加坚毅的孩子，创建具有复原力的家庭、职场和社区。
戴夫去世两周后，当孩子们准备参加学校的亲子活动缺没有父亲的陪伴时，她痛苦地对朋友说：“我只想要戴夫。”朋友说：“既然选择A已经不存在，你就只能考虑选择B了。”
是的，每个人都有可能面对人生中的选择B，这本书将帮助我们充分了解选择B，勇往直前，乐观积极地应对生活中的挑战与失败，重新找到快乐与幸福。
另一种选择:直面逆境，培养复原力，重拾快乐
OPTION B：Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 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.
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