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Option B
This book by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant came out in 2017, two years after Sandberg’s husband had died very unexpectedly aged 47. The two main ideas that run through the book are how to nail ‘Option B’ when ‘Option A’ is no longer on the table and how to build resilience in the face of awful tragedy. I have never been one to pursue ‘Option A’ at all costs – I have always believed that being too blinkered in any one course means that you can miss out on wonderful opportunities that aren’t straight in front of you. I am also relatively pragmatic when it comes to realising that…
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What are you missing?
There is a great story of the British and US Antarctic stations in the 80s – they were both monitoring the ozone and the Brits thought that they had found a hole in it. They went to the American base with their findings and asked if they had seen anything similar. The Americans had much higher spec technology and said that their data wasn’t showing that there was a hole. This back and forth continued for a while, with the Brits being increasing sure there was a hole but the Americans denying it. Finally someone looked at the settings that the Americans had placed on their technology and discovered that…
