David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

setting, and everyone thinks you’re an
idiot, so you try to do funny things to try
to create some social esteem. You’d try
to get up every morning and say, today is
going to be better, but after you do that a
couple of years, you realize that today is
going to be no different than yesterday.
And I’m going to have to struggle to get
through and I’m going to struggle to
survive another day, and we’ll see what
happens.”
His parents took him from school to
school, trying to find something that
worked. “All my mother wanted me to
do was graduate high school,” Cohn
said. “I think if you’d asked her, she’d
have said, ‘The happiest day of my life