This is a book about change and about how to meet the challenges of the coming millennium by continually striving to go one step beyond your previous experience. It is also a book about achievement in the face of uncertainty, and of learning the lessons from the struggles we face on a daily basis. More than anything else, it is a book about discovering the potential that lies within and making the most of the opportunities that are offered to us throughout our lives. We are living through one of the great transitional periods of human history, where economic, political and social change is occurring with lightening speed.
Events taking place on the opposite side of the earth inexorably influence our daily lives.
We cannot stop this change, nor can we ignore it. But we can increase our ability to adapt, to manage change effectively, and to benefit from the adversity that change creates. In these rapidly-changing times, the metaphor of adventure offers the perfect vehicle for articulating a strategy that will help us address this challenge. By definition, an adventure is a journey with an uncertain outcome and adventurers are people who pro-actively seek out difficulty in order to stretch their potential against the unknown. Today, the pace of change dictates that we must all become adventurers, leaving behind the known world of our previous experience and moving with confidence into the unpredictable world of the next millennium.