Few things hit me harder and inspire me more than watching someone rise to a level of potential they never could have comprehended. Our world is surrounded by messages of optimization, minimum effective dosing, and hyper-scale productivity. We’re consuming content about how to go from 98.7% to 98.8% effective by structuring our morning routines just right and consuming the right supplements at the perfect time.
But most of us don’t operate at 98.7%. Hell, most days hardly any of us seem to get much past 60%. That’s what gets me about recovery stories. It’s why I love addicts. These are people who completely turned their lives around and went from near zero, knocking on death’s door, to living up to a level of potential they never could have fathomed.
That’s Corwin’s story: from riding around town on a bicycle in the middle of a blizzard, searching for everything he had lost, to becoming the trustworthy man he once thought was gone forever.
One of the honors of doing this work is when I get off one of these conversations, and my guest says something like, “I can’t wait to share this with my family. I have never been able to fully explain to them my full experience.”
This is one of those conversations. Corwin Knight is as regular as you or I. He assumed that the depths he traversed in his battle with addiction made him a loner. He was wrong. And in this week’s episode of the More Than Capable podcast, he opens up completely and honestly.
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Kyle Layne
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