Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success Audiobook

Quotes

• “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, New York Times bestselling author

• “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 Times bestselling author of NurtureShock

• “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, television producer, and New York Times bestselling author

• “Feldman and Kravetz seek the special spark that separates those who grow and thrive from adversity and those who simply survive…‘We intended to write a book about how a few extraordinary people had survived trauma,’ the authors claim, and ‘with the help of supersurvivors...we ended up writing about how every one of us can live more fully.’”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Two psychologists provide a nontechnical exploration of how certain people not only survive trauma, but actually thrive after a traumatic experience…Hope for the endurance of the human spirit in the face of tragedy.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “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 film 127 Hours

• “Supersurvivors provides the contemporary science about the biology of hope that is vital for all of us—all of us—as we daily confront challenges big and small, real and imagined.”

  — Walter M. Bortz II, MD, clinical professor of medicine at Stanford University and author of The 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, PhD, author of Forgive for Good and director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project

• “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 of Crazy Like Us