is an American man in living in Mexico he's in his thirties he's a
multi-millionaire but he gets around by blowing on soaking a straw the man's
name is John Morrow and he has a particular motor neuron condition which
has meant that every motor neuron connector or receptor or whatever is in
his body is finished his completed not working the only part of his body that
works is his head but as a result of using his head as a result of his
ability to write and it's a beautiful writer he's a blogger essentially he is
a multi-millionaire however his life expectancy is short very short and Ashe
either 34 or 49 years of age he's actually considered to be very old given
his condition and is one of the longest living people with his condition in the
world but I was listening to podcasts an interview with him last weekend and I
found I had something in common ISM that was asked when he first started his
business he was concerned about failure he was so concerned about failure and
the medical aid system in America is such that if he failed if his business
did not work he would have turned his back on medical aid in America and he
would have been slapped into a nursing home to spend the rest of his life in
nursing home his father had a very very successful property development business
that went belly-up with the bust in the downturn in the property market in
America and so he ended up having to support both his parents his mother on
his father his mother because she had never walked because she had given her
whole life to helping him having him survive and he was told he was told that
he wouldn't live past the age of nine or ten his father's business and the same
went bust and so John Morrow living in a getting around in a wheelchair blowing a
straw ended up supporting both of his parents but the one lesson that I took
from the interview and the one thing that he attributed his success to was
the powerful motivation provided by fear in other words he knew that if his
business did not work if his business did not succeed he would going into a
nursing home there to spend the rest of his life only died this reminded me of
my own situation a few years ago when my property investment
where I had investors practically all of my capital had got badly hit and
basically wiped out by the fall crash rather in Derrick's property
market at that time I ended up going into a garage at home with some law
books at the age of I think I was 42 or 43 my silent agaric day after day for
something like 15 weeks and I studied the law books and I did what I had to do
in terms of passing exams and I SAS I think it was ace exams law exams to get
into the Law Society professional practice course everyone sitting after a
period of I think about 16 weeks of intensive study most people would have
taken the exams two or three at a time I saw days and class days I'm not saying
that to boast I'm saying that because what I'm saying essentially is that the
fear of failure the prospect of not passing the prospects of not doing the
work would have left me in a situation where I had lost all of my capital and
where my retailing business was sold my property business had gone tits up
essentially and I know had to worry about paying a mortgage supporting a
family and so on and what I was going to do basically with the rest of my life
because I had no capital to start again and this was in 2008 or thereabouts when
the market had crashed and the banks were essentially post my back was to the
wall and I thankfully remarkably passed all the bloody exams I wasn't sitting
and end up then getting into a legal career and I'd built upon das and I've
worked at it and I worked very very hard but what I want you to take from this
video is that the fear of failure I think it perhaps a more powerful
motivator to help you get stuff done done a positive and looking forward to
something is fantastic but I think if your back is to the wall if the options
for failure are just so horrific like John morrow like the guy in the
wheelchair glow in the straw getting around I think that you could really put
your back to a wall and use fear as a motivation I think you can achieve
remarkable things so this last weekend was an interview that I heard with John
Merrow on a podcast I was listening to cutting the grass on the back of my
house and I was calling the grass beside the garage in which I studied to become
a solicitor and I ended up sitting exams like at the age of 42 or 43 or something
in excess of 20 years after I had previously second exam so that's an
example of the illustration like John model of something that you can really
really achieve if your backs to the wall I'm gonna post a photograph of the
carriage but I hope you take from this last you can really harness the power of
fear you can harness the power of failure fear of failure you can really
really back yourself into a corner and you can achieve remarkable things hope
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