The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles Into Everyday Greatness by Weihenmayer, Erik

The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles Into Everyday Greatness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439199497)

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The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles Into Everyday Greatness by Weihenmayer, Erik

The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles Into Everyday Greatness

$22.99
The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles Into Everyday Greatness by Weihenmayer, Erik

The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles Into Everyday Greatness

$22.99
Format: Paperback
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From the world's foremost blind athlete and a Harvard Business School lecturer comes an inspiring, seven-step program for converting both mundane and dramatic struggles into the kind of fuel that spur personal and professional greatness.

Adversity is one of the most potent forces in life. It shapes your character, clarifies your priorities, and defines your path. It can also fuel your greatness. Each of us faces a rich assortment of adversities every day, ranging from minor hassles to major setbacks and challenges, even tragedies. Nobody knows this better than blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and adversity expert Dr. Paul Stolz. In this exciting new edition of The Adversity Advantage, this dream-team joined forces to offer incredible experiences and practical science to teach you how to turn life challenges into a powerful advantage. Weihenmayer, who is the only blind person to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits, shares his struggles on high mountains to turn adversity on its head and do the impossible. Coauthor Stoltz has spent decades decoding the human relationship with adversity and is the creator of the globally acclaimed Adversity Quotient.

Fully revised and updated, this new edition of The Adversity Advantage offers lessons from real-life adventure, seemingly insurmountable challenges, and extensive research to help you achieve greatness. This unique book provides an exciting and insightful framework for surpassing obstacles and reaching higher goals. Its seven proven principles will help you harness the adversity in your life and turn it into agility, innovation, energy, and happiness:

- Take it on!
- Summon your strength
- Engage your core
- Pioneer possibilities
- Pack light, pack right
- Suffer well
- Deliver greatness, every day

Let The Adversity Advantage inspire you to overcome obstacles, no matter how daunting!

Author: Erik Weihenmayer, Paul Stoltz
ISBN-10: 1439199493
ISBN-13: 9781439199497
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2010
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d
By Erik Weihenmayer
By Erik Weihenmayer
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Erik Weihenmayer is the world's leading blind athlete and the only blind person in history to reach the Seven Summits, including Everest. Erik inspires millions of people each year through his climbing expeditions, nonprofit outreach, and keynote presentations. He is author of Touch the Top of the World, which was made into a TV movie, and subject of the award-winning documentary Farther Than the Eye Can See. Erik has been featured on the cover of Time and lives with his family in Golden, Colorado.

Paul G. Stoltz, Ph.D., founded and has been the CEO of PEAK Learning since 1987, a global research and consulting firm, and the director of the Global Resilience Project, working with top leaders and organizations worldwide. The originator of the globally acclaimed AQ (Adversity Quotient) method and author of the international bestsellers The Adversity Quotient and Adversity Quotient at Work, he resides with his family in San Luis Obispo, California.

Recognized as one of Time magazine's twenty-five most influential Americans, Stephen R. Covey (1932-2012) was an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and author. His books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in thirty-eight languages, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. After receiving an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University, he became the cofounder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, a leading global training firm.

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