Find a Way Audiobook (Free)

Hillary Clinton said that Find a Way would stay with her through the general election: “When you’re facing big challenges in your life, you are able to consider Diana Nyad finding attacked from the lethal sting of container jellyfishes. And nearly anything else appears doable compared.”

On September 2, 2013, at the age of sixty-four, Diana Nyad emerged onto the sands of Key Western world after going swimming 111 miles, nation to nation, Cuba to Florida, within an epic feat of both endurance and human will, about Find a Way in fifty-three hours. Diana carried three poignant text messages on her way across this stretch of shark-infested waters, and she spoke them to the crowd in her second of last triumph:

1. Never, ever quit.

2. You’re never as well old to chase your dreams.

3. It looks like a solitary sport, but it’s a Team.

Thousands of people around the world cheered this maverick on, moved by her undeniable tenacity to be the first to help to make the historic crossing without the aid of a shark cage. By the end of her wonderful trip, after thirty-five years and four crushing failures, the general public found wish in Diana’s determination. They were influenced by her mantra-find a way-that led her to understand a desire in her sixties that acquired eluded her as a champion in peak form.

In Discover a way, Diana engages us with a distinctive, passionate story of the heroic adventure as well as the extraordinary life experiences which have served to carve her unwavering soul.

Diana was a world champ in her twenties, setting the record for going swimming around Manhattan Island, and also other ocean-swim achievements, all of which rendered her a star at the time. Back then, she made the first attempt in the Support Everest of swims, the Cuba Swim, but after forty-two hours and seventy-nine kilometers she was blown frantically off training course. Her dream unfulfilled, she didn’t swim another stroke for three years.

Why, at sixty-four, was she able to achieve what she cannot at thirty? How do her dramatic failures push her to achievement? What inner resources did Diana draw on during her lengthy days and evenings of training, and how did the power of the human spirit trump both the limitations of the body and the causes of character across this huge, dangerous wilderness? This is the gripping story of the athlete, of the hero, of a bold mind. This is a galvanizing meditation on facing doubts, engaging in our lives full throttle, and living every day with no regrets.