Best Scar Wins: How You Can Be More Than You Were Before - Hardcover

by ML Cavanaugh (Author)

Award-winning Army Strategist and top West Point professor ML (Matt) Cavanaugh shares the lessons from his 25-year military career that enabled him to turn pain to power, scars to strength, and become great by doing good.

Inspired by a near-death combat experience, Cavanaugh transformed himself from failure to fit with an act of radical generosity. He donated a kidney to a stranger, an act that also helped save the lives of seven others dying of kidney failure. Then, just months after surgery, Cavanaugh became the only living kidney donor and fastest American ever to run the toughest self-supported ultramarathon series in the world.

Best Scar Wins follows Cavanaugh as he uses the lessons he picked up from his military career to navigate the trials of the world's worst deserts across four continents--from scorpions to penguins--on a mission to save lives. The eleven lessons in this astonishing adventure story--including how to expand your "endurability"--illuminate a path that anyone can follow to become more than they were before.

In a call to live generously in support of others, Best Scar Wins shows you how to embrace your scars as triumphs--not as experiences that hold you back but as lessons that define how you move forward.

Author Biography

ML (Matt) Cavanaugh, PhD, is a retired US Army lieutenant colonel who earned two Bronze Star Medals for his time overseas. He's also an award-winning US Army strategist, having earned acclaim as the top professor at West Point and was previously named the US Army's Athlete of the Year. As a proud living kidney donor, he most recently served as the president and CEO of the National Kidney Donation Organization. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Colorado Springs Gazette, and Sydney Morning Herald. Cavanaugh makes his home in the mountains of Manitou Springs, Colorado.