After watching his timber company crash to pieces, literally before his eyes, the narrator in the 1964 movie
“Zorba the Greek” hangs his head for a few moments. Then he turns to his friend with a simple request
“Teach me to dance, will you, Zorba?”
In recent weeks three prominent European businessmen have had something like the opposite reaction to their own economic crises
reputations have reversed; friendships have turned sour; families have fractured.
In any group of people, moreover, there will be a handful who are exceptional
some release or hidden opportunity in a seemingly devastating loss — a kind of Zorba response
research has recorded significant improvements in the lives of some people after they lose a loved one
The ability to ignore an ominous cloud and concentrate on what needs to get done today — to “compartmentalize” — is a psychological skill that doctors, soldiers and others need in order to do their jobs
clipped from: www.nytimes.com 
