He Was Told He Had 5 Years to Live. He Built a Movement Instead | Iain Ward

Lain Ward was doing a medical trial for extra cash when an MRI scan found a stage three brain tumour in his head.

He was 31. His prognosis was one to five years.

His first reaction? Bollocks.

His second? A plan.

In this Bite-Sized episode of Screw It Just DO It, Iain explains how a brain cancer diagnosis became the clearest direction he had ever been given, why he calls himself the luckiest unlucky man in the world, and how he turned a prognosis into a pursuit of two Guinness World Records and a mission to raise millions for cancer charities.

We talk about the difference between a diagnosis and a prognosis, why cancer gave him a road he did not have before, and what it looks like to build a following of over over nine million people one video at a time, without ever knowing how much time you have left.

Key Takeaways

• Why finding cancer accidentally in a medical trial MRI was the luckiest thing that ever happened to him

• How he went from solutions mode to world record pursuit within a week of his prognosis

• Why cancer was the best thing that happened to his life

• What it looks like when every single daily action is connected to one goal

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