Paralyzed at 40 & Suicidal — The Marcus Aurelius Anderson Story #Shorts

For me, being in a, a bed paralyzed from the neck down, I turned 40 years old in a bed and I was literally suicidal, but I couldn't act on it.

Today's guest, I'm telling you right now, he's amazing. He's an author, he's a CEO of Catalyst, international speaker, got a brand new upcoming book coming out, which I'm super excited about. Marcus Aurelius Anderson, welcome to the show, bro.

So once I did that and got through infantry school, went to 10th Mountain Light Infantry is where I was stationed. And about a year into training, I ruptured a disc in my neck that paralyzed me from the neck down. I woke up in the ICU, broke, divorced, paralyzed trying to figure out what I do with my life now, if this is what my life is. And that was the beginning, because now I'm in the United States. Now I have people who will take care of me, even though I wasn't really nice to be around.

Mm-hmm.

And then once I had that for a good 2 weeks of just completely 1,000% gratitude— I call it 360 gratitude— that's when I started getting a little bit of feeling back in my left hand, then my right, and then—