David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

little luck and enough other resources
that he was able to weather the worst
effects of the blast and emerge stronger.
Too often, we make the same mistake as
the British did and jump to the
conclusion that there is only one kind of
response to something terrible and
traumatic. There isn’t. There are two—
which brings us back to Jay Freireich
and the childhood he could not allow
himself to remember.