![]() ![]() MM: I’m in my dorm room reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, writing down notes about sentence structure. I went back and started reading picture books. I thought to myself, maybe if I do this same thing with reading, it’ll work out. You become your own version of the athlete you want to be. I started reading picture books and took my athletic approach of starting with fundamentals, and then building on that. I had a revelation that I needed to read. Through a series of fortunate events, I discovered that if I wanted to be more emotionally intelligent, more cognitive, a better decision maker, I needed to be literate. I wanted to feel empowered not just physically, but mentally. My exposure was not broad, and I wanted to change that. Once I got to the University of Georgia, I realized how limited my thinking was. Only relying on that natural skill set placed me in a box. I had that otherworldly experience, but it was really restricting. I was able to go to the NFL and played in a Super Bowl. I had this intense draw to sport and football, which worked out. It’s just the way the community was structured. I think my community promoted sports and entertainment over education. MM: Let me start by saying I was not diagnosed with any learning disabilities. ![]() What happened then? Also, were you ever diagnosed with any sort of learning disability, or was it just a lack of education in the reading arena that caused that? ZO: I read that you were reading at a middle-school level when you got to college. ![]()
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