A record-breaking adventurer and leadership consultant draws on his extraordinary experiences to show how our mistakes can actually help us achieve our goals–if we ask five crucial questions about them.

As an adventurer who undertakes incredible challenges such as rowing across the Atlantic or crossing the Namib Desert on foot, Jason Caldwell noticed how much of a pivotal role mistakes made in his record-breaking pursuits. It turns out that As an adventurer who undertakes incredible challenges such as rowing across the Atlantic or crossing the Namib Desert on foot, Jason Caldwell noticed how much of a pivotal role mistakes made in his record-breaking pursuits. The path to an ambitious goal is never a straight line. When mistakes inevitably happen, they can open up new options and choices. This book relays the crucial questions to ask when faced with any setback-

1. Is the failure something I have control over? 2. Is my goal still possible? 3. Do I want to keep going? 4. Is there another way to my goal? 5. Am I better, tougher, or smarter for this?

Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to illustrates how these questions have helped him in literally death-defying situations. This is the first book to build a powerful business and personal success method out of the riveting and transformative failures of a true adventurer.