Sandberg's new book OPTION B

甘肅嘉峪關市第二中學 王文杰

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2015年，臉書（Facebook）CEO 謝麗爾·桑德伯格的生活遭遇了重創。她相伴11年的丈夫——美國知名網絡調查公司Survey Monkey的CEO戴夫·高德伯格突然離世。那個一直在謝麗爾背后陪伴她、支持她的戴夫，永遠離開了她。

戴夫的離去，讓謝麗爾的世界瞬間崩塌——生活陷入混亂、工作信心全無，就連戴夫的葬禮也

是馬克·扎克伯格和其他幾位親友幫忙操辦的。從此，謝麗爾開始了漫長的創傷恢復期。

在這期間，她創作了新書OPTION B。在這本書中，謝麗爾敞開心扉，回顧了自己失去摯愛的傷痛，勇敢地向讀者展現了自己內心柔弱的一面。她還邀請好友沃頓商學院教授亞當·格蘭特一起，用親身經歷和關于“復原力”的研究，探討了人們在遭遇不幸之后，如何走出極度悲傷、重拾快樂。

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Sandberg's new book,OPTION B:Facing Adversity（逆境）,Building Resilience（復原力）,and Finding Joy,records her grief and road to recovery and resilience.Option B,or C,and so on,might not be what we choose.But Sandberg is a firm believer in pre-traumatic growth（創傷前成長）—that is,people's ability to build up resilience before something bad happens so that they are able to cope with it better.

Below are some excerpts （摘錄）from the book,which was written with psychologist Adam Grant.

“I don't know anyone who has been handed only roses.We all encounter hardships.Some we see coming;others take us by surprise.It can be as tragic as the sudden death of a child,as heartbreaking as a relationship that unravels（解 體 ）,or as disappointing as a dream that goes unfulfilled．The question is∶When these things happen,what do we do next?”

One of the most important things I've learned is how deeply you can keep loving someone after they die．You may not be able to hold them or talk to them,and you may even date or love someone else,but you can still love them every bit as much．Playwright Robert Woodruff Anderson captured it perfectly,“Death ends a life,but it does not end a relationship．

Although it can be extremely difficult to grasp,the disappearance of one possible self can free us to imagine a new possible self．After tragedy,we sometimes miss these opportunities because we spend all of our emotional energy wishing for our old lives．As Hellen Keller put it,“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．”

Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us．It comes from gratitude for what’s good in our lives and from leaning in to the suck．It comes from analyzing how we process grief and from simply accepting that grief．Sometimes we have less control than we think．Other times we have more．I learned that when life pulls you under,you can kick against the bottom,break the surface,and breathe again．

Language study

I.Vocabulary

1.grief n.a feeling of great sadness,especially when sb dies （尤指因某人去世引起的）悲傷；悲痛；傷心

2.heartbreaking adj.causing extreme sadness令人心碎的；令人斷腸的

3.gratitude n.the feeling of being grateful and wanting to express your thanks感激之情；感謝

4.analyze vt.to study,check or examine something分析；細察；分解

5.cope with對付……

6.encounter hardships遭遇困難

7.go unfulfilled（愿望、夢想等）未實現的；未達到的

8.miss these opportunities錯過這些機會

9.as sb puts it正如某人說的那樣

10.kick against反對；抗議

Ⅱ.Critical thinking

If you meet the failure or the disappointing incident that defeats you in your life,what will you do after reading this text?

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