Clark Fredericks

And to paraphrase, it was, when you are faced with a situation you cannot change, you are challenged to change yourself.

And I'm like, wow.

I'm like, all right, the situation I'm in ain't going to change.

I could potentially do life.

I was charged with first degree murder, 30 to life, by the New Jersey Prosecutors Association.

And I want people to hear that.

New Jersey Prosecutors Association charged me with life, because that's gonna come back at the end of the story.

And I read that book and it ignited something in me.

I'm like, all right, I'm gonna change.

And then I read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle on mindfulness.

I was riding with bikers doing coke going to strip bars.

If you told me, like, Clark, there's going to be a book on mindfulness that's going to change your life in a few years from now, I'd be like, get out of here with that garbage mindfulness.

And so much of that book spoke to me.

And then I just dove into reading.

And I had to read close to 500 books while I was locked up.

And I got cleared.

They, they, the jail to their benefit, they brought in a, uh, physical therapist to work with me with my hand, but like this didn't get attached, but they got movement back in my hand.

And after a year, he's like, you're cleared to, uh, to start working out and using your hand.

And, uh,

I tried to do pushups and I could get two pushups.