{"id":64322,"date":"2017-06-01T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T21:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=64322"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:11:08","slug":"podcast-309-going-blind-best-thing-ever-happen-isaac-lidsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/self-improvement\/podcast-309-going-blind-best-thing-ever-happen-isaac-lidsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #309: How Going Blind Helped Isaac Lidsky See More Clearly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sight. It\u2019s something we all take for granted\u2026until it stops working the way it&#8217;s supposed to. While most of us will only have to deal with the annoyances of less than 20\/20 vision, my guest today&nbsp;went from fully sighted to completely blind when he was a teenager. While terrifying and debilitating at first, he learned that losing his ability to see the physical world actually allowed him to see reality from a sharper perspective.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His name is Isaac Lidsky and his new book is<i>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01HCGYXZW\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B01HCGYXZW&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=stucosuccess&amp;linkId=FSXA3GZUT5SFDAZ4\">Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can\u2019t See Clearly<\/a><\/i>. Today&nbsp;on the show, Isaac and I discuss how he went blind and his initial reaction to losing his sight. We then dig into insights he gained about resilience, humility, and Theodore Roosevelt\u2019s \u201cMan in the Arena\u201d speech that allowed him to move forward in life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Among his accomplishments since going blind are graduating from Harvard Law School, clerking at the U.S. Supreme Court, working at a high-powered corporate law firm in NYC, and turning around a struggling construction business that now earns over $70 million in yearly revenue. Oh, and while he was doing all that, he was also busy being the dad of triplets.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you feel like your ability to move forward in life is hamstrung by limitations, or you struggle with being resilient to setbacks both big and small, Isaac is going to show you that it\u2019s all in your mind, as well as&nbsp;what you can do to see things as they really are. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sight. It\u2019s something we all take for granted\u2026until it stops working the way it&#8217;s supposed to. While most of us will only have to deal with the annoyances of less than 20\/20 vision, my guest today&nbsp;went from fully sighted to completely blind when he was a teenager. 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