Crises are when we are tested and develop our skills and our senses. ... Chateaubriand wrote that ‘moments of crisis produce a redoubling of life in man.’ We should take such moments as a challenge to carry out our own performance review and to look back at our last crisis and how we handled it. If you cannot recall a recent crisis in your life, even one successfully averted, you are either very lucky, very bored, or both.