title: Pitiful to Powerful: How to overcome adversity and unlock your greatness!
author: Maurice T Latham
description: I grew up in poverty where life expectancy was very low and from birth, many thought that I would not succeed. The doctors told my mother that there was no chance that I would ever walk or have the ability to play sports. 20 years later, I made it out of that poverty-stricken neighborhood, earned a full-ride college scholarship and went onto play professional basketball in Europe. All of my life I've overcome obstacles. Ive stripped off the labels people placed on me. I've overcome a career-ending basketball injury that destroyed my finances, marriage- and nearly cost me, my life. Pitiful to Powerful is my testimony to show you that no matter how terrible your life looks, you have the ability to turn it around. If I can overcome addiction, homelessness, unemployment, divorce, heartache and death, so can you. You are phenomenal. As long as you have life, you have hope. Dream big. Do the work to make it a reality. I believe in you.
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  ## [Dedication](nav.xhtml#rdedi)
  
  
  
  
  
  _To my wife_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [Epigraph](nav.xhtml#repi)
  
  
  
  
  
  He well knows what snares are spread about his path, from personal animosity .
  . . and possibly from popular delusion. But he has put to hazard his ease, his
  security, his interest, his power, even his . . . popularity. . . . He is
  traduced and abused for his supposed motives. He will remember that obloquy is
  a necessary ingredient in the composition of all true glory: he will remember
  . . . that calumny and abuse are essential parts of triumph. . . . He may live
  long, he may do much. But here is the summit. He never can exceed what he does
  this day.
  
  
  —Edmund Burke’s eulogy of Charles James Fox for his attack upon the tyranny of
  the East India Company—  
  House of Commons, December 1, 1783
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [DEDICATION](9780062339096_Dedication.x