{"id":36723,"date":"2017-08-16T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/blog\/new-book-on-teamwork-determination-from-world-record-holder"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:45:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T16:45:33","slug":"new-book-on-teamwork-determination-from-world-record-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/uk\/blog\/new-book-on-teamwork-determination-from-world-record-holder","title":{"rendered":"New Book on Teamwork, Determination from World Record Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/><br \/>World Record Holder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leadingauthorities.com\/speakers\/mick-dawson\">Mick Dawson<\/a> is one of the most experienced and successful ocean rowers in the world. His new book <i>Battling the Ocean in a Rowboat: Two Men Cross 7,000 Miles of the North Pacific<\/i>, is out next week and tells his incredible story of determination and teamwork.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Along with his rowing partner, Mick manned the only rowing boat to cross the North Pacific from Japan to San Francisco\u2014an epic journey that took 189 days and covered nearly 7,000 miles. In speeches, Mick covers all the obstacles they ran up against plus how they found the will to never give up, including:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Heart-pounding stories of run-ins with bad weather and big animals<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">How they pushed past physical and mental exhaustion\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Why it\u2019s so important to stop viewing ambitions as \u201cdreams\u201d and instead as \u201cgoals\u201d\u2014working towards them one day at a time<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Mick\u2019s presentation is visually stunning\u2014he has images from the entire journey that bring it to life. He is also very charismatic, hilarious, and humble.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If you\u2019d like to learn more about Mick, including his fees and dates currently free, please fill out the form below.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Record Holder Mick Dawson is one of the most experienced and successful ocean rowers in the world. 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