Solving Problems In Kyle Maynard's No Excuses

According to the Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health (covering Infancy through Adolescence), an estimated one in 2,000 babies is born with all or part of a limb missing. The condition described in these statistics is known as congenital amputation, and covers everything from missing toes to missing limbs such as legs and feet. The book No Excuses tells of the life of the author, Kyle Maynard, and his battle with the limitations of his body. He is a congenital amputee who was born without both his arms and legs and still does everything that everyone else can do. He also wrestles, so there’s that. His philosophy on life is that everyone is given all the tools to succeed from birth, and we should have no excuses to not do what we want and/or …show more content…
I, usually, attempt to fix these problems, ranging from an unintended insult to a supremely awkward comment to causing my mother to pin me due to a panic attack from being punched in the face. I don’t like bothering others with things I know I can solve, and, with my inflated ego, I “know” I can solve any problem. This, combined with a short temper and a very rash decision-making process, means I deny anyone access to my problems, and therefore my innermost inhibitions. I don’t like to be told how to solve a problem, especially if it’s one I want to solve with every fiber of my being. THIS is even I problem I don’t want help with, and one I never realized until the last event supporting the life motto. (Which, by the way, happened the time of typing) All in all, I think this is a good trait of mine, but one with many very large cons, and I think this is how I run my life. Stay to yourself, and you cannot hurt others. A blatant lie, considering I hurt anyone I talk to for 15 minutes, but that’s parallel to the point. I believe the thing you should take from this, if anything at all, is that…life is a team sport; that’s the reason why humanity is a plural noun,