Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success
“Supersurvivors might well be a how-to manual on taking adversity and turning it into an advantage. As I read it, I kept thinking: I wish I’d had this book ten years ago!” (Aron Ralston, survivor, speaker, author, and subject of the film127 Hours)“Supersurvivorsprovides the contemporary science about the biology of hope that is vital for all of us-all of us-as we daily confront challenge big and small, real and imagined.” (Walter M. Bortz, II M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, and author ofThe Roadmap to 100)“It’s rare to find a book that appeals so well to both the head and the heart. Marrying eye-opening stories with thought-provoking science, Feldman and Kravetz open a powerful window into a world of forgiveness and hope.” (Frederic Luskin, Ph.D., author ofForgive for Goodand Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project)“Just surviving suffering is a form of success. But these people have done more than survive, and their stories are worth your time. One day you may need what they have.” (Linda Ellerbee, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Journalist, TV Producer, andNew York Timesbest-selling author)“Supersurvivors is a brilliant rethinking of the consequences of trauma. This book will change the meaning we give to survival, both for individuals and for our culture as a whole.” (Ethan Watters, Author ofCrazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche)“This is a blockbuster that every leader, parent, doctor, teacher, student, coach, and caregiver needs to read. I can’t remember the last time I was so fascinated and moved by a book-let alone one grounded in science.” (Adam Grant, Professor at the Wharton School of Business, andNew York Timesbestselling author ofGive and Take)“Supersurvivors dares to ask, ‘How, really, do we heal?’ From real case studies and hard science, the answers it finds shake the foundations of the way we conceive recovery.” (Po Bronson,New York Timesbestselling author ofNurtureShock)