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At twenty-nine, Mike Sedita weighed three hundred and ninety-five pounds.
Seven months after surgery he weighed one hundred and seventy-five-and found out that a new body does not come with a new head.
He had been getting told what he couldn't do since he was twelve years old in a jersey that didn't fit. Too heavy. Too loud. Too late. Not qualified. Some of it came from people. Some came from his own body. Once it came from a doctor who told him he had run out of road.
BUILT FOR THE OBJECTION is the account of a man who has started over more times than he can defend in polite company. A brother, a mother, and a father buried inside of four years. Three marriages. A partnership that cost him millions because he couldn't bring himself to disagree out loud. And then, at forty-nine-with a marriage quietly ending-forty-five straight days without a single sale at the work he would go on to lead the country in.
It is a book about the word no. Not how to avoid it. How to hear it correctly.
Because the argument underneath every chapter is one he learned the hard way, from teachers, coaches, doctors, employers, and a body that spent three decades saying it:
The objection is never the problem. The objection is the information.
It is unsparing about bodies, money, marriage, and grief. And underneath the story runs a working method, laid out in plain language and free for the taking.
For anyone who has been told they were too heavy, too loud, too late, or not qualified-and got back up anyway.
Seven months after surgery he weighed one hundred and seventy-five-and found out that a new body does not come with a new head.
He had been getting told what he couldn't do since he was twelve years old in a jersey that didn't fit. Too heavy. Too loud. Too late. Not qualified. Some of it came from people. Some came from his own body. Once it came from a doctor who told him he had run out of road.
BUILT FOR THE OBJECTION is the account of a man who has started over more times than he can defend in polite company. A brother, a mother, and a father buried inside of four years. Three marriages. A partnership that cost him millions because he couldn't bring himself to disagree out loud. And then, at forty-nine-with a marriage quietly ending-forty-five straight days without a single sale at the work he would go on to lead the country in.
It is a book about the word no. Not how to avoid it. How to hear it correctly.
Because the argument underneath every chapter is one he learned the hard way, from teachers, coaches, doctors, employers, and a body that spent three decades saying it:
The objection is never the problem. The objection is the information.
It is unsparing about bodies, money, marriage, and grief. And underneath the story runs a working method, laid out in plain language and free for the taking.
For anyone who has been told they were too heavy, too loud, too late, or not qualified-and got back up anyway.