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Of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce, and Other Bum Raps
Random House
April 2007
On Sale: April 12, 2007
128 pages
ISBN: 1400065658
EAN: 9781400065653
Hardcover
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Self-Help
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 diagnosed with breast cancer more
than thirty years ago–and again nine years later–she managed
to find an astonishingly bright side to the darkness. She
shares her often zany and unpredictable personal experiences
of turning the worst into the best, and shows how others
have done the same–thriving in adversity to a remarkable
degree and coming to recognize their various blessings in
disguise.
Steve Jobs describes how being fired from Apple, the company
he founded, was one of the best things that ever happened to
him. Homemaker Sally Fleming made a better life for herself
and her family after a fire. Only when workaholic CEO Eugene
O’Kelly was diagnosed with a terminal illness did he really
begin to live his life to the fullest. Bill Clinton, Charles
Colson, and others describe life changes after adversity.
Rollin reveals the science behind the theory of adversarial,
or post-traumatic, growth. This paradox is not about denying
hardship but about finding a way to benefit from it. Seeing
the bright enables us to find the good, whatever form it
takes, within the bad and proceed from there.
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 once,” says Rollin. “You can’t. Gratitude picks you
up and puts you in a place where gloom cannot thrive.”
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