Dracula: “We learn from failure, not from success!” by Bram Stoker

Follow your dream — whether it is swimming, coaching or blockchain — but know what you want to do. Read this interview where love overcomes adversity with Mihai Herman and his irrepressible energy.

Chronic pain is debilitating. Then imagine getting chronic pain on your honeymoon? Could there be a worse time and place? Mihai Herman faced both. He had just married his highschool sweetheart and they were honeymooning in the US when he was afflicted with chronic pain in his eyes and monumental headaches. It was so severe that he attended an emergency doctor in Delaware but nothing was diagnosed.

He returned home to his native Romania and continued to seek medical help. Each time he was told there was nothing the matter — or rather nothing that the medical consultants could identify as the cause of his relentless pain.

This was in 2016. Mihai had been used to wearing glasses; he had been born with astigmatism and had been wearing glasses for at least 12 years. But the constant pain in his eyes and head was something he found terrible to deal with.

By 2017 he could barely work: during the week he could only manage to work for four hours in total. The constant pain left him physically and mentally exhausted. Then he found a doctor who was able to identify the…