Jonathan Mooney: ...different isn't deficient

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Mooney joins us on this episode. His latest book is called, "Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn and Thrive Outside the Lines". His website is jonathanmooney.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black.
0:16.1	Joining us on this episode is New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Mooney, whose latest book is called
0:22.1	Normal Sucks, How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines. Jonathan, thank you so much for
0:27.5	joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me. Really appreciate it. Your path to being a best-selling
0:32.9	author wasn't an easy one. In fact, your path to becoming a writer and even a reader was tough.
0:39.2	Tell us about the struggles you faced and what normal sucks is all about.
0:45.0	Yeah, you're right about that. Certainly wasn't what my high school guidance counselor thought I
0:50.0	would be doing. I struggled with school. I was the kid who spent most of the day
0:57.2	chilling out in the hallway with the janitor. I grew up on a first name basis with Shirley
1:01.8	the receptionist in the principal's office, struggled with reading, spent a lot of time hiding
1:06.6	in the bathroom to escape reading out loud with tears streaming down my face. I didn't learn to
1:11.7	read until I was 12. And so I had all sorts of low expectations. You know, I was told I'd flip
1:16.8	burgers for a living. I was told I'd be a high school dropout. I was told I'd be incarcerated.
1:22.3	And I beat those odds, you know, opposed to flipping burgers. I ended up writing books and opposed
1:27.1	to being a high school dropout, I became a college graduate and opposed to flipping burgers, I ended up writing books, and opposed to being a high school
1:28.4	dropout, I became a college graduate, and opposed to an inmate, I became an advocate, and somebody
1:34.1	who's dedicated his entire life to building a more inclusive world for folks who learn and live
1:40.0	differently. And that's really what the new book is all about. I know it's a subtle title,
1:45.6	normal stuff. You know, you kind of just get right to the point. It's about this idea
1:51.6	that looms over all of us, that there's a normal brain or body that we should have. It's about
1:58.1	where that idea comes from and how it's been used to to give the message to
2:02.9	folks who don't fit the myth of normal that something's wrong with them. And most importantly,
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