PositiveWiredIn an almost hacker-ish way, it seeks to transform a painful, tragic experience into something of use to people ... A Facebook post is concise in a way that can make the message end up feeling more managed. In Sandberg’s book, she gives us a little more—think Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking meets business case studies. Many of the anecdotes of others struggling with adversity are compelling, but in some cases with an asterisk. The emphasis on 'overcoming' has a tendency to shift the burden onto the individuals in a way that tacitly equates not overcoming with personal failure. I would have liked to have seen more stories of people genuinely grappling with societal forces that kept them marginalized and disenfranchised.
