I told my mom, “I think I am going to drop my math class.” I had just finished my first quarter at college since my brain injury, and I had an anxiety attack about the next term that was starting only one week later. I registered for critical thinking and math classes over this […]
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“Friends show their true colors in times of need; and not in times of happiness.” -Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann When my injury first I became surrounded by strangers, relatives, and came out of the woodworks offering unlimited support saying, “If there is anything I can do for you, please, let me know.” Talk is […]
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When you think you know everything, your mind tends to close off, you are no longer open to new ideas, and you begin to boast about everything that you do know and do less examining about what you don’t. Additionally, when you think that you know everything you tend to lack empathy for others and […]
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Ryuho Okawa said, “If we do not challenge ourselves again and again, we will never be able to accomplish anything.” New challenges give you fresh ideas by bending the mind around problems, which expands your thinking, and forces the mind to think in new ways that it never has never done before. Where the challenge […]
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“Hey Nolan, would you mind if I interviewed you for a documentary about paralysis?” I went down to Los Angeles, six hours away from my house to learn how to walk at a paralysis recovery center called Next Step. Being excited about doing my first interview for the media I asked the videographer if it […]
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I was shot in the head on April 23, 2017. It was my parents 20th wedding anniversary, I was sitting in my car, parked up against a wall, wall at the end of a cul-de-sac, and I saw these five sixteen year old kids hopped this wall and came running in my direction. I did […]
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The other day I paid a visit to the second hospital I was in. Being caught up in my day to day recovery, and looking forward, I became disconnected of where I Came from. Being paralyzed became an exaggeration, the inability to eat became more of a, “choice,” and the thought of moving my […]
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MY SEVEN HONEST TIPS FOR OVERCOMING HARDSHIPS How do I overcome adversity? How do I overcome hardship? These are some of the most common questions asked by people who are emotionally shattered by a life-changing incident or stuck in a long phase of pain and despair. Hardships are an intrinsic part of life, and […]
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Nolan McDonnell 