The Adversity Advantage

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. But merely coping with or overcoming adversity barely keeps you in the game. The key to success, both in business and in life, is learning how to become an alchemist and convert any adversity, major or minor, into a genuine advantage. The Adversity Advantage offers proven principles and practical tools that teach you how to use adversity as a force for superior achievement, resilience, agility, innovation, energy, and happiness.

Stoltz and Weihenmayer posit that any individual or enterprise can use adversity to power their ultimate success. Stoltz has spent decades decoding the human relationship with adversity and is the creator of the globally acclaimed Adversity Quotient^®. His AQ^® theory — the most widely used method in the world for measuring and strengthening how we deal with adversity — forms the foundation of this book. Weihenmayer is the exemplar of Stoltz's work and the seven principles taught in this book. He has triumphed over and gleaned tremendous advantage from seemingly insurmountable adversities, becoming the only blind man in history to reach the Seven Summits, the tallest peak on every continent, including Everest. These two adversity experts have married their dream-team combination of practical science and unmatched experience to develop seven guiding principles to teach you how to transform adversity into your most powerful advantage.

The Adversity Advantage blends Stoltz's proven leadership techniques and groundbreaking research with Erik's soul-stirring real-world anecdotes and wisdom. It will rewire your core response mechanisms to react optimally to anything that happens, the moment it strikes. You will move past avoiding or simply coping with adversity to harness its true power. Learn to pinpoint and grow your adversity strengths to bring out your best when you need it most, under pressure. Use adversity to pioneer new possibilities in your work and life.

• Foreword by Stephen R. Covey
  
• Introduction
• Summit One. Take It On!
• Summit Two. Summon Your Strengths
• Summit Three. Engage Your CORE
• Summit Four. Pioneer Possibilities
• Summit Five. Pack Light, Pack Right
• Summit Six. Suffer Well
• Summit Seven. Deliver Greatness, Every Day
  

I really wanted to like this book, but it never starts to resonate. But when you check one of the endorsements are from Covey, you begin to understand the lack of real content. I admire one of the authors, even though I can't really understand his motivations.

This book really doesn't give you anything except an introduction to Adversity Quotient, which in my opinion you really can miss.