Jonathan Mooney

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829 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2021 last heard Dec 2024

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What are you good at?

And and I was only hearing what I was bad at.

So I would say, oh Mr.

R, you know, I'm not good at anything, you know?

And uh he never gave up on me or anyone else.

And one day he came to me and he said, Hey, you know, you're wrong about yourself.

You're so good at telling stories.

Now, sometimes they're inappropriate stories you tell, but but but I don't care.

You're so good at telling stories that you could be a writer.

I mean, I was nine, dyslexic.

A writer?

Nobody had ever said that to me before in my life.

And I looked at the guy and I said, Are you out of your goddamn mind?

You know, I can't spell, man.

And the guy did not miss a beat and looked right at me and said, Jonathan, screw spelling.

And I'm like, screw spelling right on, you know, like yes.

Nobody had ever said, forget what you can't do and focus on what you can do until that guy.

So I I I dedicate, you know, all three of my books in in different ways to to Mr.

And so normal sucks in some ways is is the culmination of uh my advocacy and thinking around how we as

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