“The Unthinkable is not a book about disaster recovery; it’s about what happens in the midst—before the police and firefighters arrive, before reporters show up in their rain slickers, before a structure is imposed on the loss. This is a… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme. — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and disadvantages just… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events;… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Since 9/11, the U.S. government has sent over $23 billion to states and cities in the name of homeland security. Almost none of that… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“One thing was clear: To give our kids the kind of education they deserved, we had to first agree that rigor mattered most of… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I went, in every country, people complained about their education system. It was a universal truth and a strangely reassuring one. No one… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“In almost every other developed country, the schools with the poorest students had more teachers per student; the opposite was true in only four… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“These days, we tend to think of disasters as acts of God and government. Regular people only feature into the equation as victims, which… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Statistically speaking, tracking tended to diminish learning and boost inequality wherever it was tried. In general, the younger tracking happened, the worse the entire… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
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