What a Man With No Movement Taught Me About Being Stuck

Join Our Community Here: https://www.lifeintransition.online/ What does it actually mean to refuse to be defined by what happened to you? Ken Kunken was 20 years old when he tackled a ball carrier on a kickoff during a football game at Cornell University and damaged his spinal cord. In the space of one play, the young man who had defined himself entirely through physical capability — varsity football, varsity wrestling, lifeguarding, a Cornell engineering major — became almost completely paralyzed. The rehab facility handed him a pamphlet. For his level of injury, the pamphlet suggested one possible career path: selling magazine subscriptions over the phone. Ken couldn't dial a rotary telephone. What followed is one of the most quietly extraordinary lives Art has encountered in this conversation. Ken became the first quadriplegic to graduate from Cornell University. The first to earn a graduate degree there. He went to law school, passed the New York bar exam on his first attemp...