“The Greek poet Homer understood the value of a crisis. He wrote, “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”

Remember the story of the chicken farmer whose land was flooded virtually every spring? Even though the floods caused him horrendous problems, he refused to move. When the waters would back up onto his land and flood his chicken coops, he would race to move his chickens to higher ground. Some years, hundreds of them drowned because he couldn’t move them out in time. One year after suffering heavy losses from a particularly bad flood, he came into the farmhouse and in a voice filled with despair, told his wife, “I’ve had it, I can’t afford to buy another place. I can’t sell this one. I don’t know what to do!” His wife calmly replied, “Buy ducks.””

from “Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships” by John C. Maxwell

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