Benefit finding is often advice given in the wake of negative life transitions that kind of happen to you. The most common, I think, is to say that you learn something from a transition. Research suggests that one way that we find benefits in transitions is to learn something about the world and ourselves that we didn't know before.
What’s more stressful, divorce or jail? Are you in the middle of a “lifequake”? And should we all be taking notes from Martha Stewart?