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Student Number One was
spanked by his teachers for
bad grades and poor
attitude. He dropped out of
school at 16.
Student Number Two failed
remedial English and came
close to flunking out of college.
Student Number Three feared
he would never make it
through school and might not
have without a tutor.
Student Number Four finally
learned to read in third grade,
devouring Marvel Comics,
whose pictures provided clues
to help him untangle the words.
Student #1 Richard Branson
• Developed Britain’s Virgin Records and
Atlantic Airways
Richard Branson “At some point,
I think I decided that being
dyslexic was better than being
stupid.”
Student #2 Charles Schwab
• Created the Discount Brokerage Business
Dyslexics don’t outgrow their
problems. Reading and writing
could be hard work all their lives.
Schwab – very strong in math,
science and sports –but English
was a disconnect. He couldn’t
listen to a lecture and take notes.
He couldn’t memorize four
words in a row.
Brain's Lobes
Student #3 John Chambers
• CEO of CISCO
• Dyslexic
• Each year John Chambers increases Cisco’s
profits by 2 billion dollars
Chambers – “This is very painful
to talk about, even today. The
only reason I am talking about it
is 100% for the kids and their
parents.”
You have just got to learn your
way through it.
What works is to go a little
slower.
Chambers reads
right to left
up and down
Student #4 David Boies
• Celebrated Trial Attorney
• The guy who beat Microsoft
• Dyslexic
Boies “It is a disability in
learning. It is not an
intelligence disability. It
doesn’t mean you can’t think.”
What do they have in common?
They are all
Craig McCaw
• Billionaire – Cellular Industry
• Thinks differently – invented the cell phone
because he couldn’t see why people would
want to be tied to the wall by a six foot
cord. All the other experts thought he was
crazy. But he could vision a person
standing in their front yard talking on a
phone. No one else could.
Learning Disabilities have
NOTHING to do with
intelligence.
John Reed
• Led Citibank to the top of the banking
industry
Donald Winkler
• Headed up Ford Financial
Winkler remembers coming
home from school bloodied by
fights he’d had with kids who
called him dumb.
Gaston Caperton
• Former Governor of West Virginia
• Head of the College Board
If you can survive childhood, you
will be great in the business
world.
Paul Orfala
• Founder of Kino’s 800 stores around the
world
Orfala failed second grade and
spend part of third in a class of
mentally retarded children. He
could not learn to read. He was
taken to testers, tutors, therapists,
special reading groups, and eye
doctors. Nothing worked.
Orfala – As young classmates
read aloud, I felt as if angels must
be whispering the words in their
ears.
I have always been a bad reader.
I was 40 years old before I would
let anyone see my handwriting.
Never made it through high
school.
Orfala in college did all the
photocopying for his writing
team working on a business
project. That copying gave him
the idea for Kinko’s.
Diane Swonk
• Chief Economist of Bank One
• Can’t remember phone numbers
• Forgets which way to turn when she gets off
the elevator.
• Forgets which number is her train
Bill Samuels, Jr.
• President of Maker’s Mark
• Dyslexic
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=anim/plastic
Think in 3D
Like having a CAD in your brain
Thinking in MOVIES
not words
Winston Churchill
• Prime Minister of Great Britain
• Writing and reading problems
Albert Einstein
• Physicist and Mathematician
• Greatest mind of the 20th century
Dyslexics think outside the box.
Hippocampus Neurons
Cerebral Cortex Neurons
Dyslexics don’t outgrow their
problems. They learn to manage
them. Without coaching, the
problems can snuff out dreams
and make people give up.
Dyslexia
Superstar
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Actress and Superstar
Scott Adams - Dilbert
Jay Leno
Tonight Show
Bill Hewlitt – HP Laserjets
Leonardo Da Vinci