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Do clouds truly have silver linings? Betty Rollin answers with a resounding yes in this wise, moving, and funny book about the surprising upsides to life’s most challenging, painful, and seemingly insurmountable low blows. Rollin has been there. After being identified as having breast cancer more than thirty years ago–and again nine years later–she were able to find an astonishingly bright side to the darkness. She shares her often zany and unpredictable personal activities of turning the worst in to the best, and shows how others did the same–thriving in adversity to a amazing degree and coming to recognize their various blessings in disguise.
Steve Jobs describes how being fired from Apple, the company he founded, was among the finest things that ever happened to him. Homemaker Sally Fleming made an improved life for herself and her family after having a fire. Only when workaholic CEO Eugene O’Kelly was identified as having a terminal illness did he really start to live on his life to the fullest. Bill Clinton, Charles Colson, yet others describe life changes after adversity.
Rollin reveals the science behind the idea of adversarial, or post-traumatic, growth. This paradox is not about denying hardship but about finding ways to benefit from it. Seeing the bright enables us to get the good, whatever form it requires, within the bad and proceed after that.
Poignant, timely, universal, and inspiring, Here’s the Bright Side proves that amid life’s struggles and losses, there is much to be gained–wisdom, strength, and, perhaps most important, gratitude. “Try feeling gloomy and grateful all at one time,” says Rollin. “You can’t. Gratitude picks you up and puts you in a location where gloom cannot thrive.”
