The James Altucher Show

Episode Description:Jon Morrow’s story begins with a diagnosis that was supposed to be a death sentence.Born with spinal muscular atrophy, Jon was diagnosed at six months old. Doctors told his mother he would likely die by age two. Instead, she fought for him. She fought to keep him alive. She fought to get him into public school. She fought through pneumonia, broken ribs, hospital visits, and a world that did not expect much from him.That expectation became one of the central forces in Jon’s life.In this From the Archive conversation, James talks with Jon about what it means to live in a world where people expect you to survive, but not necessarily to achieve. Jon explains how his mother gave him a radically different definition of disability: everyone has something they cannot do as well as someone else, but everyone also has something they can do better than most.For Jon, that thing was his mind.He learned to write, program, think, sell, and communicate. He used assistive technology, including a sip-and-pu