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    Find a Way

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    On September 2, 2013, at the age of sixty-four, Diana Nyad emerged onto the sands of Key West after swimming 111 miles, nation to nation, Cuba to Florida, in an epic feat of both endurance and human will, in fifty-three hours. Diana carried three poignant messages on her way across this stretch of shark-infested waters, and she spoke them to the crowd in her moment of final triumph:

    1. Never, ever give up.
    2. You're never too old to chase your dreams.
    3. It looks like a solitary sport, but  it's a Team.

    Millions of people around the world cheered this maverick on, moved by her undeniable tenacity to be the first to make the historic crossing without the aid of a shark cage. At the end of her magnificent journey, after thirty-five years and four crushing failures, the public found hope in Diana's perseverance. They were inspired by her mantra-find a way-that led her to realize a dream in her sixties that had eluded her as a young champion in peak form.

    In Find a Way, Diana engages us with a unique, passionate story of this heroic adventure and the extraordinary life experiences that have served to carve her unwavering spirit.

    Diana was a world champion in her twenties, setting the record for swimming around Manhattan Island, along with other ocean-swim achievements, all of which rendered her a star at the time. Back then, she made the first attempt at the Mount Everest of swims, the Cuba Swim, but after forty-two hours and seventy-nine miles she was blown desperately off course. Her dream unfulfilled, she didn't swim another stroke for three decades.

    Why, at sixty-four, was she able to achieve what she could not at thirty? How did her dramatic failures push her to success? What inner resources did Diana draw on during her long days and nights of training, and how did the power of the human spirit trump both the limitations of the body and the forces of nature across this vast, dangerous wilderness? This is the gripping story of an athlete, of a hero, of a bold mind. This is a galvanizing meditation on facing fears, engaging in our lives full throttle, and living each day with no regrets.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 20, 2015
    ISBN9781101889022
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    • 5/5
      Wow! Amazing and inspirational!! A must read for everyone
    • 4/5
      Diana Nyad is a swimming machine with incomprehensible mental ability to withstand sleep and sensory deprivation, pain, and year after year of arduous training leading to her successful swim from Cuba to Key West in 2013 at the age of 64. “Find a Way,” details her path to success and the obstacles she overcame to become a superhuman open-water swimmer able to complete the goal of swimming 110 miles in 53 hours.Personally, I find Nyad to be intelligent, obsessive, and articulate. I would say “inspiring,” but, to me, her dedication to achievement and exploits exceed “inspiring” and enter the category of “amazing” and “astonishing.”Part of the memoir was difficult to read. She suffered from the trauma of sexual assault by both her father and her high school swim coach. Her mother failed to protect her and her coach continued to become an Olympic coach, despite his continued sexual abuse of many teenage swimmers. Some people overcome hardship and become stronger through survival. Nyad seemed to do so.Even Nyad describes her lifestyle as fanaticism. At the age of ten she would waken at 4:30 each morning and execute 1,000 sit-ups and 50 chin-ups. This routine occurred 365 days a year, without exception. The day included four hours of swimming and training, before and after school. In her sixties, Nyad still subjected herself to a brutal discipline with a regime of 10 - 30 hour open-water swims.To my surprise, I learned that box jellyfish exist in the Atlantic, as well as the Pacific. Nyad suffered from dangerous stings in the four attempts to swim to Key West prior to her success. She invested a great deal of time, energy and resources in designing equipment and finding experts and treatments to protect her during the risky nighttime swimming through jellyfish-infested waters. Her ultimate success was largely due to discovering methods to defend her from this hazard.I can’t say that “Find a Way” was an enjoyable read, but it was educational and gave me new respect for Nyad’s amazing accomplishments.
    • 5/5
      This was a great tale of achievement, determination, and overcoming the odds. Yes, I realize what a cliche that sounds like -- but really, you have to listen for yourself to see just how spectacular Nyad's achievement was. I promise, it's worth it.

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