Resilience

The best book I have ever read on this topic. The practical, research-based concepts of how to navigate challenging times in life helped me through a very hard time. I read through many books during that time, but none of them came close to the insightful and life changing information in this book. I have even begun to start handing out copies of it to friends and family going through hard times themselves.

I read this book as part of the research I’m busy with, I quite liked how the book blends research and personal stories making it easy to understand how the both comes together. The personal stories on resilience are a delight to read and aptly takes the reader through the framework of factors of resilience.

There is some good stuff in this book although if you have read a bit about the subject it may not be new to you. That being said some of the stories used to illustrate various ideas were interesting to me. Some people have mentioned the religious aspect of some anecdotes being off-putting but I didn't find it obtrusive or excessive. If I was anticipating a difficult or challenging period in my life then I think this would be the book I would choose to help me.