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The Book Review

Sheryl Sandberg on Life After Tragedy

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant talk about “Option B,” and Annie Jacobsen discusses “Phenomena.”

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0:00.0

How did Cheryl Sandberg, the author of Lean In and COO of Facebook, handle the sudden

0:07.8

death of her husband and father of her two sons?

0:11.4

She'll join us along with her bestselling co-author, Adam Grant, to talk about their new

0:15.8

book, Option B.

0:17.4

You can't perfectly control it.

0:18.8

The grief comes and goes on its own time, and everyone grieves in their own way.

0:24.0

But knowing there are steps you can take, and for me knowing that there have been research

0:27.3

that proves that those steps help, I was just like, oh my god, even if it only is one

0:32.1

tiny thing, it's something I can do.

0:34.1

Just how seriously has the American government taken ESP?

0:37.6

Annie Jacobson will tell us about her new book, Phenomena, The Secret History of the US

0:42.7

Government's Investigations into Extra-Censory Perception and Psychokinesis.

0:47.7

I didn't want to prove or disprove either side.

0:50.6

I wanted to interview the dedicated scientists and psychics who believe in this work and work

0:57.7

in this field.

0:58.7

And I also wanted to interview the scientific skeptics who find this a porn.

1:03.4

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world.

1:06.4

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

1:09.9

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

1:11.6

I'm Pamela Paul.

1:18.9

Joining us now is Cheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant.

1:23.0

Co-authors of the new book, Option B, Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding

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