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Option B

Disciplines:
psychology
memoir

Summary

Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's account of resilience in the face of catastrophic loss — written after Sandberg's husband Dave Goldberg died suddenly.

Core Contribution

Post-traumatic growth applied to grief: the 'three Ps' (personalization, pervasiveness, permanence) as the thinking patterns that prevent recovery. Sandberg's personal account of grief combined with Grant's psychological research on resilience. A recalibration of Lean In's assumptions: acknowledged that her previous framework underweighted the role of luck and circumstance.

Historical Influences

Adam Grant Martin Seligman

Intellectual Lineage

Positive Psychology Grief Memoir

Allied Works

Lean InGive and Take

Contemporaries & Peers

Lean InA Year of Magical Thinking

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

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