Why am I passionate about this?
When I was young, my mother became addicted to Valium. Following years of the inevitable traumas associated with living with addiction, my mother committed suicide six weeks before my wedding. I am an accidental writer, having chosen the law as my primary profession. On its face, my first book, Inflection Point: War and Sacrifice in Corporate America is a behind-the-scenes exploration of high-profile litigation in Big Pharma. However, it is really the story of my personal struggle to come to terms with my own feelings of loss and abandonment as a result of my motherās passing. In writing this book, I not only healed, but found a second professional passion.
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Why did Traci love this book?
Lidsky suddenly became blind as an adult and had to rebuild his life from the ground up. Overcoming the physical, as well as the emotional, obstacles to suddenly losing his eyesight, Lidsky charts his journey from the top to the bottom and back to the top again. Since reading Lidskyās story and co-authoring Coughlinās book, I have found gratitude in small things, despite my own personal struggles. More than once, I have said to myself, āIf they can keep going in the face of sudden blindness, so can I.ā
1 author picked Eyes Wide Open as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
In this New York Times bestseller, Isaac Lidsky draws on his experience of achieving immense success, joy, and fulfillment while losing his sight to a blinding disease to show us that it isnāt external circumstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality.
Fear has a tendency to give us tunnel visionāwe fill the unknown with our worst imaginings and cling to whatās familiar. But when confronted with new challenges, we need to think more broadly and adapt. When Isaac Lidsky learned that he was beginning to go blind at age thirteen, eventually losing his sightā¦