The Breakthrough Factor: Creating a Life of Value for Success and Happiness

For 13 years and on four U.S.

Olympic track teams, Henry Marsh competed in international track and field, setting a still-unbroken American record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.

He finished fourth, however, in his run for glory in the 1976 Olympics.

What he learned in his repeatedly thwarted bids for Olympic gold is that the highest degree of reward and satisfaction is to be found in the unswerving pursuit of personal excellence, rather than in merely winning a competition.