Yossi Ghinsberg on Overcoming Adversity

This Monday, I had the honor of watching Yossi totally captivate an audience. What an incredible storyteller! AND his story is one of the best I’ve seen for inspiring organizations that are going through tough stuff. Yossi puts things into perspective - a perspective that inspires us to treasure each adversity because life is never short of a miracle.

Here are some of the messages Yossi shares in each of his presentations:

• In extreme adversity, the hero in each of us rises.
• Nobody escapes adversity, it is part of life. Being a victim of adversity is always a choice.
• When your vision and purpose are clear, the rest is technical.
• When you’re one with what you are doing, mountains move - walls collapse.

Here are some highlights from Yossi’s experience:

• He was lost in the jungle alone for 21 days.
• He had no food, no water, no weapons to defend himself.
• He survived numerous white water rapids, a huuuuge waterfall that should have killed him, a jaguar attack, the worst monsoon flood the indigenous people had ever experienced, attacks by red and fire ants, etc, etc.

Yossi's experience is like something you would read in a novel and his presentation is so powerful it’s like attending a movie. The big difference is he uses no visuals - his words are so powerful that you are in the jungle, in the rushing waterfall and experiencing everything with him as if you were the one lost in the jungle.

Yossi's Power to Survive (the title of his signature keynote) is a must see / hear / experience for every organization who need to breathe life into their people!

xo Karen