Cheating the Impossible: Ideas and Recipes from a Rebellious High-Wire Artist

Join the legendary acrobat and performer Philippe Petit on a highly personal journey across the high-wire in his latest book, Cheating the Impossible: Ideas and Recipes from a Rebellious High-Wire Artist. Petit’s “recipes” will guide you through deep challenges to the personal and professional rewards that wait on the other side. In the form of a narrative that uses Petit’s life as a roadmap, Cheating the Impossible presents “patience and tenacity” as key ingredients to overcoming obstacles. Petit - who walked on a high wire between the World Trade Center towers in 1974 - reminds us that struggle is a valuable tool that has been replaced by crash courses and shortcuts. To cheat the impossible and escape the human condition one must always leave an action — either large or small—victoriously.