greatness

"Great by Choice" is a book but this isn't a book review - it's a life preserver. Just when you think life is smoothing out before you like a glimmering highway through a sun-scorched desert, something happens to jackhammer the road. "Great by Choice" is a study of what uncertainty, chaos and bad luck will do to people and why some survive and even thrive. The results were full of provocative surprises: Success isn't a result of being: more creative, more visionary, more charismatic, more ambitious, more blessed by luck, more risk seeking, more heroic, or more bold. The most surprising take-away was the three behaviors shared by people who lived, both literally and figuratively, through the same circumstances that…