What Are You Responsible For?

Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Lifetakes shape as a series of letters Eric wrote to and received from this friend. Their correspondence shines a light on how academic knowledge based in philosophy can be merged with life experience to overcome strife and build up defenses against trauma. Greitens discusses the process of becoming broken and how even the ostensibly strong still need strategies for dealing with hardship.

Everybody has to deal with hardship. Everybody has to de...