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Choosing Wisdom : Strategies and Inspiration for Growing Through Life-Changing Difficulties

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Grow through adversity with Choosing Wisdom.

Choosing Wisdom could be a good read for someone who wants to develop a growth mindset and learn from adversity. The book offers practical advice and inspiring stories based on the experiences of two groups of individuals - medical patients coping with chronic pain and physicians coping with medical mistakes. The book sheds light on how average people can respond to adversity, how they change, and what factors help or hinder positive change. It will be an excellent source of inspiration for anyone who is struggling to cope with their own difficult journey or for those who seek to aid them along the way.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Choosing Wisdom : Strategies and Inspiration for Growing Through Life-Changing Difficulties

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ISBN: 9781599473956
Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press,U.S.
Date of Publication: 2012-07-20
Format: Mixed
Related Collections: Science, Personal Development, Sociology
Related Topics: Health, Social Issues, Personal Development, Psychology, Mental Health
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We all know the saying, "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger," but is that really true? After all, for some people, traumatic experiences ultimately lead to truly debilitating outcomes. For others though, adversity really does seem to lead to "post-traumatic growth" where individuals move through suffering and find their lives changed in positive ways as a result. Why does this growth happen for some people and not others? How exactly does it happen? Can the positive results be purposefully replicated?These are the central questions of a new study conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Virginia. They share their findings, along with practical advice and inspiring stories, in their new book Choosing Wisdom and the companion PBS documentary of the same name. Based on interviews with two distinct populations--medical patients coping with chronic pain and physicians coping with having been involved in serious medical errors--Choosing Wisdom delves into how average people respond to adversity, how they change, and what factors help or hinder positive change. Through these interviews, the authors chart each person's journey, and though the circumstances of each case may be unique, the commonalities are remarkable.By paying careful attention to the journeys of these exemplars, this cutting-edge research will shed new light on how we can grow, change, and develop wisdom through adversity. It will be a welcome source of inspiration for anyone facing their own difficult journey and for those who seek to aid them along the way.


Author: Margaret Plews-Ogan
Format: Mixed media product
Number of Pages: 248
Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press,U.S.
Publication Date: 20 Jul 2012
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Grow through adversity with Choosing Wisdom.

Choosing Wisdom could be a good read for someone who wants to develop a growth mindset and learn from adversity. The book offers practical advice and inspiring stories based on the experiences of two groups of individuals - medical patients coping with chronic pain and physicians coping with medical mistakes. The book sheds light on how average people can respond to adversity, how they change, and what factors help or hinder positive change. It will be an excellent source of inspiration for anyone who is struggling to cope with their own difficult journey or for those who seek to aid them along the way.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.