From Amputee to Problem-Solving Prodigy 🦿📘

Most people go to college to learn problem-solving. Amanda showed up already fluent. She didn’t have all the answers — but she never waited to start. Her secret? She wasn’t afraid to fail. She was afraid of not trying.

Amanda pulled up to Boston University thinking, “What if all my hacks don’t work here?” But plot twist — she wasn’t just built different… she built different thinkers.

Her group? Stressed. Frozen. Trying to Google their way out of building a bridge. Amanda? Already on prototype #3.

“I don’t need the perfect answer. I just need a few options to try.” That line? It hit everyone.

And suddenly, she wasn’t just the girl with a prosthetic. She was the girl with tools. With options. With answers.

By midterms, they called her the Swiss Army Knife. By finals, they were saying: “You literally changed how I think.”

📍 If you’ve ever felt like your setbacks made you slower — nah. They might be the exact thing that gave you an edge.

This episode of Mental is proof that your so-called “limitations” might just be your superpowers in disguise.

🎧 Listen in. Or miss out on realizing… you’re way more capable than you’ve been giving yourself credit for.