Jun 25, 2026 · 26 min · 11 segments
Ralph Preston came home from the hospital in a wheelchair. He did 10 hours of therapy a day for 15 months, and the mindset behind it is teachable. Work with us: https://findaphasiasupport.com Ralph…
Ralph PrestonGuest
Genevieve RichardsonHostBut let's talk about what was the mindset? What was the kind of thinking that got you there? You had said, I know from your stroke story, that you came home in a wheelchair and you were not willing to settle with that.
no no it was not like my mindset was i'm pretty intense so my mindset in the rehab hospitals i signed up for more therapies i found out i could go to different things that i wasn't pool therapy and stuff so i signed up for anything and everything i could i didn't want to watch sit in bed and watch tv but i could get better and i carried that right home and I started, I got home five o'clock one day and started the next morning doing, I literally did 10 hours a day of therapy for about 15 months.
Every hour on the hour, every other hour on the hour, I would walk and the other hours I would work on my hand and my arm and shoulder.
And so I encourage people in basically as running a group and doing videos, I'm basically coaching a lot of people at once.
I have no idea how many, I think we influence more people than I'll ever know.
Adaptive thinking is the first thing is you have to go into it with a positive attitude that Whenever you believe that you're going to succeed at anything, I think you have a much better chance of succeeding.
The point is engineers look at problems as an opportunity to create solutions.
A lot of times they have legitimate reasons and you have to take it down a few levels to get to them.
But there are a number of people who keep coming at you with, I can't do that.
But let's talk about what was the mindset? What was the kind of thinking that got you there? You had said, I know from your stroke story, that you came home in a wheelchair and you were not willing to settle with that.
no no it was not like my mindset was i'm pretty intense so my mindset in the rehab hospitals i signed up for more therapies i found out i could go to different things that i wasn't pool therapy and stuff so i signed up for anything and everything i could i didn't want to watch sit in bed and watch tv but i could get better and i carried that right home and I started, I got home five o'clock one day and started the next morning doing, I literally did 10 hours a day of therapy for about 15 months.
Every hour on the hour, every other hour on the hour, I would walk and the other hours I would work on my hand and my arm and shoulder.
And so I encourage people in basically as running a group and doing videos, I'm basically coaching a lot of people at once.
I have no idea how many, I think we influence more people than I'll ever know.
Adaptive thinking is the first thing is you have to go into it with a positive attitude that Whenever you believe that you're going to succeed at anything, I think you have a much better chance of succeeding.
The point is engineers look at problems as an opportunity to create solutions.
A lot of times they have legitimate reasons and you have to take it down a few levels to get to them.
But there are a number of people who keep coming at you with, I can't do that.
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