Bertrand PICCARD, a writer to a famous family and one of his book that I read 1 - Who is this man? This man is Bertrand PICCARD. He was born in 1958 in Lausanne. This is a doctor, psychanalist and specialist on hypnosis. 2 - Do you know any person of his family? His father: Jacques PICCARD. He builds with his father the bathyscaphe Trieste. In 1960, he explored the "Mariana trench". This valley in deep sea is in south of Japan. The depth is of 11500 m. His grandfather: Auguste PICCARD went to the stratosphere (15700 m) in 1931. Bertrand is equally a pioneer! As Jules Verne, he uses a hot-air balloon "Breitling Orbiter III". He was the first with his team to travel around the world without stop (halt) in 1999. This is a travel of 19 days and from 45 700 km. Another action of this brave man in 2003: Bertrand travel in “Solar Impulse”, around the world in solar plane. 3 - Bertrand the writer! Bertrand is francophone and wrote 7 books around his exploits (balloon and solar plane). The name of the 8th book is : "Changer altitude, quelques solutions pour mieux vivre sa vie" You can translate by: "Change of altitude, many solutions to a better life" (book of 300 pages). 4 - The book: Bertrand used his personal experience. I summarized it in these phrases: - We are prisoner of our personal thinking - We can live rare or difficult situations. For example: illness or other accidents of the life. - We are going in a time of crisis (uncomfortable situations). He says that in chinese, crisis can tell 2 ideas: - Risk and danger (emergency) - Opportunity to build your life differently (to take another way). You can catch the opportunities of the moment. Bertrand use an image that I please to relate: Take opportunities, this is to change altitude in a hot air balloon. So, you change the direction of you destiny. Conclusion: I conclude my presentation to say that you’re live in a permanent circle of change. It is a good thing to prepare my spirit to the changes of directions who come all along my live.