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A Hand book for Hard Times

Dealing with a Tough Diagnosis Early in Life

Everyone eventually gets bad news, but the world feels especially unreasonable when you get a tough diagnosis early in life. It almost inevitably feels like a brutal, unfair surprise. The sheer suddenness of such changes in your life can make things very hard to deal with. Especially if you are a young person, you often feel adrift with no guidance.

While there are many books—some written by philosophical luminaries and famous thinkers—that discuss how to deal with mortality, many of them are targeted at people who are in the later stages of life. A Handbook for Hard Times was written by an author who got a tough diagnosis at a young age, and it provides a perspective on concrete ways that younger people can deal with bad news and continue to flourish in the time they have left.

The author developed these ideas from his own experiences and explains that death is nothing to fear, and dying young, while tragic, is also a gift that makes it easier to find meaning in both life and death. While death is a Big Problem, it’s also as much a part of life as love, learning, and eating chips. In A Handbook for Hard Times, we’ll explore together how this knowledge helps us live better and find more joy in life.