Actor Henry Winkler was told he was stupid. A teacher labeled Dan Malloy, the future governor of Connecticut, mentally retarded. Delos Cosgrove recalls hanging on by my fingernails in high school and college before becoming a thoracic surgeon and the Cleveland Clinics chief executive officer. Each has dyslexia, a condition that makes reading difficult but has little to do with intelligence. Mounting evidence shows that many people with dyslexia are highly creative, out-of-the-box thinkers, and neuroimaging studies demonstrate that their brains really do think differently. A growing list of entrepreneurs, politicians, writers, actors and medical professionals struggle with dyslexia but work around it. That helps explain the long list of entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists, actors and other professionals, doctors and lawyers who have excelled despite, or perhaps because of, their difference, experts say. online.wsj/news/articles/SB10001424127887324020504578396421382825196
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 02:00:55 +0000
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