The Blind Mechanic

This is something very inspirational. Bart Hickey is a mechanic from Chicago, USA. Nothing special about that, except that he is blind. I still can't wrap my head around the fact that a blind person can carry out automotive repair. Even sighted people have trouble doing that! Watch the video below.

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I think it just goes to show how much people can achieve if their mind is not feed with negative rubbish, that they can't achieve certain things because of who they are. Bart's cousin, revealed in his blog that Bart's late father never treated him any different from a sighted child. He had to carry out the rubbish, vacuum the basement, just like any normal sighted child. His father thought him to repair cars, and never told him that he can't do it because he is blind.

The famous author Malcom Gladwell, in his book "What the Dog Saw" mentioned about a psychology experiment conducted by Standford University to study "stereotype threats", involving black and white subjects performing athletic and test taking, two stereotypes that black and white people are normally associated with. The result of the test confirmed the hunch that, if you don't tell someone that he or she can never be good at certain things, that limit will not exist in their mind and they will do better. You may read the original article here.

If a blind can run an auto repair business, there is no excuse for all of us to not pursue our dream.

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