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I started going to therapy twice a week, and began a blog to try and cheer myself up. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, and I lost forty pounds due to stress. As with any self-help book, though, you will get out of it what you put into it.In my late twenties my wife left me and my best friend took his own life.

I can think of some people who could benefit from the material here, but who might eye-roll their way past some of the secrets. I do wonder, though, if folks who are less optimistic by nature will enjoy this as much as I did. I believe the target audience will find many as well.

I wasn’t personally looking for solutions to the struggles addressed by the book. I read this because the topic of building resilience is fascinating to me as a parent, a former teacher, and someone who still works with kids. I especially enjoyed the pages where he digs into those questions. Pasricha asks three interesting questions to help readers with that process.

My favorite chapter was Secret #4: Tell Yourself a Different Story. He also cites several studies to back up his assertions, which I also appreciate in a self-help book. I feel like the conversational tone of this will appeal to readers. Those show that he knows what he’s talking about from experience. I enjoyed the personal stories the author shared here (generally one story per secret, although several of them built on one another across the whole book).

seeing failure as a step toward your future, andĪ good bit of the advice falls into the category of reframing your circumstances which is a strategy I have always found helpful when facing trials.Īs an optimist by nature (sometimes to the annoyance of my family), I enjoy books like this.

shifting the spotlight from a focus on yourself,.

Pasricha says there are nine secrets to resilience including Resilience is the ability to keep moving forward no matter what comes – success, failure, or more of the daily grind. The author’s third book, after The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation, looks at resilience.