The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections: Audiobook
Part of Your Coach in a Box
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections runs 10.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Erik Synnestvedt (about 6.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 10.4 hours, it runs longer than 81% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Erik Synnestvedt
Erik Synnestvedt narrates 140 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 999 hours in all.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
1,723 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections is an audiobook by Norman E. Rosenthal: a 10.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Erik Synnestvedt, released August 29, 2013, on the Memoirs and Mental Health & Psychology shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Erik Synnestvedt
- Released
- August 29, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Mental Health & Psychology, Self-Development
- Series
- Your Coach in a Box
- ISBN
- 9781469026961
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections as an audiobook?
The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections runs 10.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.9 hours.
Is The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections?
The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections is narrated by Erik Synnestvedt.
Is The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.9 hours, saving 3.5 hours.