"The worst thing about being bullied isn't the hitting. It's being treated like you are invisible. The kids at school would act like I didn’t exist — sitting on top of me, isolating me from the others.

The tipping point came when I decided to run for the 100-meter dash — only to dislocate my kneecap, two strides from the starting line.

I asked myself, am I really that useless that I can't even run? But then I realised something profound. If I can't run, I can speak. And that's when I decided to join public speaking."

Watch Michael's full story in this clip from our Malaysian Confessions: Real Entrepreneurs, Real Stories event!


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