When Your Life Depends on It

Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic

By: Brad Borkan, David Hirzel

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Antarctica - life-and-death decisions - the early 1900's. The only communication is as far as you can shout.

How Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen, and Mawson risked it all in their quest for the South Pole and beyond, and what we can learn from their situations to improve our modern-day decision making.

Grab a warm blanket. This audiobook puts you right into the action of the life-and-death decisions made by early Antarctic explorers. It is filled with unforgettable stories about the challenges and decisions they faced on the ice.

While we might not be pulling sledges across Antarctica in the early 1900s, this audiobook also reveals valuable lessons in leadership, teamwork, and sheer grit and determination that can help all of us make better decisions in our lives today.

In When Your Life Depends on It, you'll discover:

• Eleven of the greatest survival stories in the history of exploration.
• How to make decisions quickly without feelings of doubt or guilt.
• How to improve your team and leadership skills, which are valuable in any profession.
• When it is right to take a big risk.
• How to succeed against all odds.

Co-written by a decision scientist and an Antarctic historian, When Your Life Depends on It is filled with tales of resilience that resonate with people who love travel and adventure, as well as those seeking insights into human behavior. It reveals the mindset of the brave men who risked and in some cases gave their lives, for science, discovery, and exploration.

Buy When Your Life Depends on It today to learn about one of the most remarkable periods of history, and in the process learn new strategies to improve your own personal and business decision making.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2017 Brad Borkan and David Hirzel (P)2018 Brad Borkan and David Hirzel

Missed opportunity

This book could have been so much more. I heard the author speak live and tell amazing stories about the polar explorers and it compelled me to download this book. I was disappointed the stories didn't go deeper and that the narrator was rather uppity and bland sounding. This book should have had charisma but it doesn't. Overall, the stories are compelling and the feats of these brave souls were incredible. This could have been an epic read instead of an okay one.

Antarctic or Resilience? How about both?

Liked this well enough, I purchased the hardcopy. I read it with this narrator's voice playing in my mind. I've researched some of the examples and found ways to incorporate the lessons learned into some of the classes I've taught as well as using hindsight to revisit some of my past decisions... good and bad.

Miscategorized Genre

Verbose attempt at regurgitating common sense principles. Only the story, if interested in Arctic Exploration, is worthwhile.