Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

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Fleming, Mike Jr. (February 6, 2017). "STX Boarding Shailene Woodley, Baltasar Kormakur Sea Survival Tale 'Adrift' ". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media . Retrieved January 30, 2018.

We cannot grow without challenge. Challenges routinely produce crises that severely test us. However, crises also offer us the greatest opportunities. People going through tough times typically feel isolated, and unsure what to do. When I face a crisis, I try to keep in mind a few simple concepts: we cannot control our destinies, but we can help to shape them; we must try to make life hop a bit, but we must also accept that we can only do the best we can.” For the next 79 days, he is forced to survive in a small life raft. As survival equipment fails and is repaired becomes less and less reliable, you wonder if he will be able to keep going. Of course you know he does because he lives to write the book. Robertson, Douglas (2005), The Last Voyage of the Lucette, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Seafarer Books, ISBN 1-57409-206-5As the movie isn’t out yet it’s unclear whether Sharp is actually there or a figment of Ashcraft’s imagination.

To this day, she wears a triangular-shaped sextant, encrusted with a diamond, as a pendant as “it reminds [her] of how [she] got home.”China spends 10x more of it’s GDP on core infrastructure than the United States which is why it shouldn’t be surprising you can get from Bejing to Shanghai in 4.5 hours despite being a greater distance than Boston to DC which takes 7 hours. Author Steven Callahan is an American writer, naval architect, inventor, and sailor. In 1981, he survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft; which is the basis for this book. This book had all the elements of stories that I usually really like: an adventurous goal, a sudden disaster and perseverance and resourcefulness to overcome the odds. Yet, I DIDN'T LIKE IT.