From the course: Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Option B: Building Resilience

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Finding meaning

Finding meaning

- Dave was incredibly giving. At the funeral Zander Lurray, our friend, actually asked everyone, he said: "Raise your hand if Dave Goldberg gave you piece of advice, "did something that changed the trajectory of your career, "or changed you in some way?" And, hundreds of hands went up. That made me realize that I couldn't undo the tragedy of Dave's death, but maybe, just maybe, there could be some meaning from it, that some good could come from it. (light inspirational music) - When people face traumatic events, early on, many psychologists thought there were two possibilities: one was to be broken, to walk away with post-traumatic stress disorder, or debilitating depression, or really have difficulty functioning. The other possibility was to bounce back, to return to the place that you were before. What psychologists learned through that research was that there's a third possibility: that, in some ways, people are not just able to just bounce back, they're able to bounce forward, to…

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