Born paralyzed. Hundreds of broken bones. Pneumonia 16 times. Built a business using a lip operated mouse. Traveled the world. You have no excuses.
Austin, TX / MTY MX
Joined November 2013
- Tweets614
- Following118
- Followers7.4K
- Likes101
Jon Morrow retweeted
GPT-6 Astra Pro in ChatGPT got an upgrade with faster responses and improved use of plugins and tools.
And now, multiple agents can tackle different parts of a task in parallel. You can follow each agent’s progress and open completed tasks to review their work.
Now available to Pro users in the Chat tab.
Jon Morrow retweeted
2009-2014:
- $500 for an ebook
- Course era hit
- Wild West
2015-2019:
- ClickFunnels shows up (now a multi $1,000,000,000 brand)
- Behemoth funnels
- Huge automation sequences
2020-2022:
- COVID hits
- Digital product sales exploded (2,000,000,000+ buyers)
- Dropshipping took off
2023-2024:
- Skool was in its heyday (Hormozi bought it)
- Online communities in general took off
2024-2025:
- Grifters move onto AI (adoption 2x’d from 33% to 71%).
- People said digital products are dead
- They’re wrong
2026-beyond:
- Digital products can be apps now (75% of new apps are built with no-code tools)
- Things with inherent obvious value that sell themselves.
Digital products have always been the greatest customer acquisition tool ever created.
They cost you nothing to spin up, you can test endlessly, and every customer you get is a credit card on file you can sell to again.
The model will never die.
Jon Morrow retweeted
Today, we’re rolling out an updated Deep Think mode available in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers. Here’s what you need to know:
— Gemini 3 Deep Think mode pushes the boundaries of intelligence even further, delivering meaningful improvement in reasoning capabilities
— It works by using advanced parallel thinking to explore multiple hypotheses simultaneously
— This builds on the Gemini 2.5 Deep Think variants that recently achieved a gold-medal standard at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad and at the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
Ultra subscribers can try Deep Think today by selecting “Deep Think” in the prompt bar and Gemini 3 Pro in the model selector.
Age 1: Diagnosed with a fatal disease. Said I'd die by age 2.
Age 2: Got pneumonia but survived. Proved them wrong.
Age 4: Got pneumonia again. Still survived.
Age 7: Major spine surgery. Pain so bad I begged to die.
Age 8: Parents separate. It becomes a five-year divorce battle.
Age 10: So poor we can’t afford food. The church takes care of us.
Age 12: Start programming video games after school.
Age 13: Mother remarries. Discovers his brother is a cartel boss in Mexico.
Age 14: Summer with the cartel in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Age 15: More pneumonia. Nearly died this time.
Age 16: Graduated from high school. Full scholarship to college.
Age 17: Stepfather is beating my mother. I threaten to hire a hitman to kill him. He runs.
Age 18: Launched first company. Virtual reality for learning languages. Crashed and burned.
Age 20: Graduate college magna cum laude.
Age 21: Real estate developer. Become a millionaire for the first time.
Age 24: Body crushed in car crash. 37 broken bones. 12 months of narcotics.
Age 25: I lose millions in the real estate crash. My house. Everything.
Age 26: I move to Mazatlan, Mexico. Writing every day on the beach. Nearly everything goes viral.
Age 27: My writing crosses 100 million readers.
Age 28: Launched Smart Blogger. Made \$500,000 in nine months.
Age 30: Smart Blogger becomes the biggest writing blog in the world.
Age 33: Tony Robbins reads one of my posts to a stadium full of people.
Age 35: A doctor and I fall in love. Thinking about getting married.
Age 36: She is brutally assaulted. Brain damage. Schizophrenia. I lose her.
Age 37: Therapy. I start to heal from all the trauma in my life.
Age 38: Speaking to crowds of up to 7000 people.
Page 40: Reach milestone of $15 million earned online.
Today: You learn about me for the first time.
Hi. My name is Jon.
I've lived a crazy life.
Follow if you'd like to hear more.
If I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be this:
Your excuses are lies you've told yourself so often you believe they're truths.
For years, I told myself no girl would ever want me, so why even try to date?
Excuses justified loneliness, excuses protected me from the pain of rejection.
But the reality?
I was just scared—scared of being vulnerable, scared of feeling unwanted, scared of my own worthiness.
I decided to challenge my own limiting beliefs. I started asking six women a day to join me for a coffee date.
Within 30 days, I'd gone on dozens of dates, had ten women texting 'good morning' daily, and ended up dating a beautiful Southwest flight attendant who fell head over heels in love with me.
Stop lying to yourself. Face the truth, drop the excuses, and finally change your life.
Doctors said I would die before I graduated high school.
Nobody thought I would go to college. Nobody thought I would ever have a girlfriend. Nobody thought I would even survive.
And I realized I had a choice:
I could believe they were right, and I would die…
… or I could decide for myself what my life could be and maybe, just maybe I could prove everyone wrong.
Now I'm 42 years old. I graduated college at the top of my class. I've made millions of dollars from my wheelchair, I get more girls than Leonardo DiCaprio.
(Okay, maybe not quite that many.)
The point?
I don't care how low you are right now. I don't care how many people have given up on you.
You can prove everybody wrong. You are the only one who decides your future.
I'm begging you to stop chasing comfort.
Comfort feels good. Comfort feels safe.
But comfort is quietly killing your dreams.
After college, I landed a comfortable job as a real estate developer. Six figures, luxury, stability—it was easy, too easy.
I knew I should be writing, knew I should be creating, yet day after day, comfort whispered, 'stay safe, stay here.'
But I recognized comfort for what it is. Not the voice of reason, but the voice of complacency, the voice of death.
I quit my job and risked everything. I started writing a blog. Within 30 days, I had over 100,000 visitors.
How? Discomfort.
Discomfort demanded focus. Discomfort drove action. Discomfort transformed me into a writer who inspired millions.
Comfort isn't your friend—it's your enemy.
Break free, or watch your dreams die.
Self Acceptance: a defense mechanism where a person lowers their expectations of their future self as a way to avoid shame
Jon Morrow retweeted
If you don’t have the life you want…
It’s not because the game is rigged.
It’s not because your parents messed you up.
It’s not because of anxiety, depression, or any other mental or physical condition.
Here’s why you don’t have the life you want:
You are tolerant of weakness.
Newsflash:
The game IS rigged. You must be strong enough to win a rigged game.
Our parents messed ALL of us up. You must be strong enough to overcome your trauma.
Mental and physical conditions DO make your life harder. You must be strong enough to bear the extra weight.
The world is designed to punish the weak and reward the strong.
Winning is simple:
Get stronger.
When you are strong enough, the world will bow at your feet and give you anything you ask.
You won’t dream about a better future. You will command it.
And the world will bend itself to your will.
"I'm too old to start."
Common excuse. Here's my response:
Doctors told my mother I would die by the age of two.
All children with my disease died young.
But medicine improved.
Technology improved.
And my will to live was stronger than anyone imagined.
I'm now 42. Still going strong.
All the doctors were wrong.
Nobody can predict the future.
That includes you.
Every time you say you are too old, you are predicting your own death.
That's silly. You don't know when you will die.
Expect to live forever.
But be prepared to die tomorrow.
This is the only logical way to live.
I used to think the government could save me.
I couldn't buy insurance. And I had $120,000 per year of medical bills.
The government offered me Medicaid. For free.
At first, I was grateful. I felt like they saved my life.
But then they told me I wasn't allowed to work.
They garnished my income if I made more than $700.
Government auditors watched my bank account.
That's when I realized Medicaid wasn't really free.
Whenever you become dependent on anyone, they can tell you what to do. Control your life.
You give up your freedom.
Most people on Medicaid never get off it. I was lucky… it took me only three years to escape.
And I learned a valuable lesson:
Don't become dependent on anyone unless you're willing to be their slave.
Not your family. Not your friends.
Certainly not the government.
Don't accept handouts. Don't place your hope in others. Don't diminish yourself.
Only you can fix things. YOU.
Believe in yourself. Build up your strength. Stand on your own two feet.
I did. And I'm paralyzed from the neck down.
So can you.
Jon Morrow retweeted
I always thought I would die a virgin.
I'm in a wheelchair. I have less strength than a toddler. I need help eating, going to the bathroom, everything.
Guys like me didn't get laid. It was just a fact of life.
But a part of me wondered... what if I wrong?
In my 30s, I decided to test it. I hired a dating coach and started asking 10 women a day to have coffee with me.
10 years later?
I've been on over 500 dates.
Four relationships of 2+ years.
Two marriage proposals. I said no both times.
And my love life would make Hugh Hefner blush.
Moral of the story:
Test your beliefs to find out if they are true.
You might find the cage around you exists only in your mind.
Jon Morrow retweeted
You think you’re too small to change the world?
I used to think so too, but then the craziest thing happened:
“I don’t have any dreams.”
A burly man in a construction hardhat stood in front of me. His eyes full of sadness.
I was on an assignment from a self-help seminar to ask complete strangers at a mall about their dreams for the future.
But what happened shocked me.
“I go to work,” he said. “I feed my kids. I sleep. There’s nothing else.”
The despair in his voice stabbed my heart like a knife.
“Come closer,” I told the man. He stepped forward and knelt down next to my wheelchair so we could see eye to eye.
“You love your kids, right?” I asked.
“More than anything.”
“What kind of example are you setting for them? Do you want them to end up like you, a man with no dreams?”
He began to cry.
“What’s one small way your life can be better a year from now?”
He thought about it. “Their grades could get better,” he said. “So maybe they can get into college.”
“There’s a dream. A good dream. That your kids go to college. I want you to start talking about college with them every day. They should know you have dreams for them.”
Tears were pouring down his face. “Thank you so much,” he said. “I think you just changed my life.”
I smiled. “I didn’t change your life,” I told him. “You did. And you changed your children’s lives too.”
He walked away. The whole interaction was two minutes, maybe less.
It taught me so much.
We think we are too small to have any impact on the world. We’re not rich enough, smart enough, connected enough to change anything.
But change starts small.
With a single question. With a complete stranger. With the courage to have a meaningful conversation.
We don’t have to change the world. We just have to shift the thinking of one person.
You can do that. So can I.
Let’s do it together.