Perseverance isn’t a polished memoir meant to impress. It’s a raw account of a career and a life built not just on achievement, but on course corrections. Vernon E. Altman writes about falling hard and standing back up. About brilliance that went unnoticed until discipline caught up with it. About the quiet strength of people who don’t fit the “textbook smart” mold but outthink and outwork the best of them.

The book takes readers inside the concept of “Full Potential,” a notion Vernon first introduced in his consulting career, which he later realized applied just as powerfully to everyday life. Readers don’t just encounter his failures and recoveries; they’re invited to consider their own and how those missteps might actually light the way forward.