Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Prelude: Persistence
Chapter 1:
Mentors in Persistence
Chapter 2:
Deadly Paradigm
Chapter 3:
True Grit
Chapter 4:
“Get Your Affairs in Order”
Chapter 5:
Buried Alive
Chapter 6:
Walk On
Chapter 7:
Burn the Ships!
Chapter 8:
Is This Flying or Dying?
Chapter 9:
Dream and Become
Chapter 10:
Be Found Ready
Chapter 11:
Fight or Flight
Chapter 12:
Homeless Once More
Chapter 13:
Guerrilla Television
Chapter 14:
My Worst Nightmare
Chapter 15:
ET
Phones Home
Chapter 16:
“Roundball Rock”
Chapter 17:
Helen of Troy Riding a Bicycle
Chapter 18:
Pity Party
Chapter 19:
Match Points
Chapter 20:
The Whirlwind
Chapter 21:
Newtonian Physics
Chapter 22:
“How Dumb Can You Be and Still Breathe?”
Chapter 23:
The Multiple Miracles of Red Rocks
Chapter 24:
John Tesh: Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony
Chapter 25:
Obstacles
Chapter 26:
And Then This Happened
Chapter 27:
Intelligence for Your Life
Chapter 28:
Mark 11:23
Chapter 29:
Get Uncomfortable
Chapter 30:
Instant Dad
Chapter 31:
The Crack Den
Chapter 32:
To Live and to Fight Under the Word
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
Guide
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