Growing Pains
How [The Right Kind Of] Suffering Helps Us
By Paul Bloom
Antifragility: How We Get Stronger Via Adversity
By Big Think
Understanding The Power Of Post-Traumatic Growth
By Boulder Crest Institute
How We Can "Super-Survive" After Adversity
By David B Feldman & Lee Daniel Kravetz
Why We Need To Experience Pain In Life If We Want To Evolve
By Steve Leder
The Science Of The Good That Can Come After Trauma
By Richard Tedeschi & Lawrence Calhoun
Finding Meaning In The Midst Of Adversity
By Viktor Frankl
Learning To Reframe Adversity As A “Gift”
By Normal Rosenthal
Why What Doesn't Kill Us, Makes Us Stronger
By Stephen Joseph
Finding Happiness After Adversity
By Adversity & the Art of Happiness
TED Talks & Lectures
By Stacey Kamer, Andrew Solomon & Ram Dass
Tips & Webisodes
By Science Of People, Sounds True & Abraham Twerski
Clips & Interviews
By Meg Jay, Sonja Lyubomirsky & The Art Of Going Inside
Insight
Scientific American
You’ve Heard of Post-Traumatic Stress, but What about Post-Traumatic Growth?
Brain Pickings
Friedrich Nietzsche on Why a Fulfilling Life Requires Embracing Rather than Running from Difficulty
CBS This Morning
Rabbi Steve Leder on the power of suffering: “It’s only pain that forces us to change”
Thought Catalog
16 Reasons Why Having Your Life Turned Upside Down Makes You Infinitely Stronger
D.I.Y.
Films & Trailers
A Guide To Happiness: Nietzsche On Hardship, Dark Night Of Our Soul & I Came Back
Podcasts
Podcast Clips
Book Extracts
To Survive or to Supersurvive
Taken from Supersurvivors, by David B. Feldman, PhD & Lee Daniel Kravetz.
The Flipside of Trauma
Taken from What Doesn’t Kill Us, by Stephen Joseph, PhD.
Post-Traumatic Growth: Finding Meaning & Creativity in Adversity
Taken from Transcend, by Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD.
The Prisoner Cannot Free Himself
Taken from More Beautiful Than Before, by Steve Leder.
The Thumbs Must Go
Taken from The Gift Of Adversity, by Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.
Why Terrible Experiences Can Also Be Good For You
Taken from Upside, by Jim Rendon.
Introduction
Taken from Out Of The Darkness, by Steve Taylor.