10 things I learned from “Option B”

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Aug 27, 2017 · 2 min read

Can we overcome the adversities in our life by looking into it through a different angle or another option?

Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg says we can. Here are the ten things I learned from her book, co-written with Adam Grant, Option B.

1. Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.

2. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity — and we can build it. It isn’t about having a backbone. It’s about strengthening the muscles around our backbone.

3. When life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

4. He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

5. I am not going to be a product of my DNA. I am going to be a product of my actions.

6. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

7. Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely.

8. You regret the things you don’t do, not the things you do.

9. Just as grief crashes into us like a wave, it also rolls back like the tide.

10. Tragedy does not have to be personal, pervasive or permanent, but resilience can be. We can build it and carry it with us throughout our lives.

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