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In 2015, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Sandberg lost her husband.

Dave Goldberg died suddenly from a heart condition while the couple were on vacation.

Sandberg struggled for a while at home and at work coming to terms with her grief and pain and also with how it affected her relationships

with friends, co-workers, and her boss, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

She posted a long essay about her suffering and sense of isolation on Facebook, and she reached

out to Wharton Professor Adam Grant to learn about what the research says about resilience,

together they wrote a new book called Option B,

facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy.

To hear about how to build resilience in yourself, your team, and your organization,

HPR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius interviewed the two co-authors.

He talked to Sandberg and Grant together at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

And he started by asking Samberg why she wanted to write a book from such a traumatic

experience. Losing Dave's the hardest thing I've ever been through. It's an unimaginable thing to find your husband,

you know, on the floor of a gym and later realize he's dad

have to sit down on a couch until your children,

their father, died.

And I think in those early days, in those weeks and those months, anyone who's been through

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