Allow me to tell you the story of Christopher Nolan
At 22 he was hailed as a literary genius. He won the Whitbread Prize for his autobiography, “Under the Eye of the Clock”.
But takes Christopher 15 minutes to write one word. Yes you read that correctly. Just to be sure go back and read the emboldened part again. Christopher was born with severe cerebral palsy, he spends much of his life strapped in a wheelchair, his face and limbs subject to uncontrollable spasms. He can’t speak, but by eleven years old he’d learned to type. Why?
As a child, he cried bitterly that he was not like other children, until one day his mother said, “Listen here, you can see, you can hear, you can understand and you’re loved by me and your dad just as you are.”
That day he began to fan the only spark he saw,
“I’m alive and more importantly, I’m loved just the way I am!”
Gradually he looked at his limbs and decided that he liked himself!
He began to shift his attention away from his limitations, his weaknesses and focus on what was possible; what he could do with his life.
Listen to a few of his sentences:
“My mind is like a spin-dryer at full speed; millions of beautiful words cascade down into my lap.
Images gunfire across my consciousness and while trying to discipline them, I jump in awe at the soul-filled beauty of the mind’s expanse.”
Wow, What a mind is trapped in that uncontrollable body.