The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness

Paul G. Stoltz · Erik Weihenmayer

févr. 2012 · Simon and Schuster

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An inspiring, seven-step program for converting daily setbacks and major challenges into key components of success from a blind athlete and adversity expert.

Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

In this exciting new edition of The Adversity Advantage, a dream team offers incredible experiences and practical science to teach you how to turn life challenges into a powerful advantage. Erik 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 Paul G. 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!

“The Adversity Advantage encouraged our team to walk into the midst of the current economic adversity with optimism and look for the new opportunities that these times bring . . . it has been an inspiration and has truly made a difference.” —Al Carey, president and CEO, Frito-Lay North America

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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.