Chapter One

The dumb kid

I was the kid the system gave up on — the one they shuffled to the back of the classroom and forgot. This book is everything I wish somebody had told me then, before I had to learn it the hard way.

Hope isn't a strategy, but it's where every strategy starts. In this chapter I'll tell you where mine came from, and why the label they gave me turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me…

Narrated in Brian's voice · 4:12 / 12:30