The gift of adversity the unexpected benefits of life's difficulties, setbacks, and imperfections
Running counter to society's current prevailing message that things should always run smoothly--or, at least, appear to--and that failure or mistakes of any sort are to be avoided at all costs, The Gift of Adversity shows that such setbacks are inevitable. Indeed, engaging with our own failures...
| Main Author: | Rosenthal, Norman E. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA),
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I.
- Youth.
- The thumbs must go ;
- An accident ;
- Crime and punishment ;
- The persistence and fragility of memory ;
- Know your brain ;
- Know your body ;
- Be yourself ;
- The weight of history ;
- Mrs. Brown's "Rular" ;
- All the lonely people ;
- Lena and Lucas ;
- Lessons from a fly ;
- The fixer ;
- The long reach of sexual trauma ;
- Trouble with my father ;
- Mysteries of mood ;
- Medical school ;
- A brush with the South African police ;
- A brutal attack ;
- Born again ;
- Boot camp and the kindness of strangers ;
- Homeland ;
- Namibia ;
- Leaving home
- Part II.
- Adulthood.
- New York City ;
- Hostile takeover ;
- Supervising a supervisor ;
- What are the questions? ;
- Leaving the NIMH ;
- Losing and choosing ;
- Pride and prejudice and sociopaths ;
- Lessons from a scam ;
- A ghost from the past ;
- Don't hold on to grudges ;
- Hold on to dreams ;
- Taking responsibility ;
- Reciprocity in relationships ;
- Learning something from everyone ;
- Telling a story ;
- The gift of meditation ;
- By force of habit ;
- The quest for excellence
- Part III.
- Heroes.
- Death in the desert ;
- High-stakes negotiations at midnight ;
- A cousin in trouble ;
- Meeting with Viktor Frankl
- Part IV.
- Farewells.
- A patriarch takes his leave ;
- Dad's last day ;
- The death of Galadriel ;
- Appointment in Samarra ;
- Life after death ;
- It's never too late to say "I love you."