Being diagnosed as having some form of learning disability can be disheartening. But people with LD are anything but born losers. Quite a number became very successful in their careers of their choice. For example, did you know that Albert Einstein couldn't read until he was nine? Yet this great man developed the theory of relativity that invalidated some of the physical laws discovered by another great scientist Isaac Newton.
Some of the great leaders have trouble reading all their lives. Yet not only did they overcome their disability but they went on to do great things for their nations. Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom had dyslexia so was the Vice President of the United States of America Nelson Rockfeller and yet they provide excellent leadership to these two great nations. The famous military leader General George Patton had reading problem as well but this did not deter him from becoming one of the most prominent military personality of his time.
Business leaders have a fair share of dyslexics too. Walt Disney and Charles Schwab are examples of people with learning abilities that built up large corporations to support the lives of hundreds if not thousands of their employees.
Whoopi Goldberg, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise all have the common defect in reading. It was said that Tom Cruise learned his lines by getting someone to read the script to him and he memorise them- no mean feat. He must have a supersized memory.
The most intriguing example of LD suffers made good is Hans Christian Anderson, a famous creator of fairy tales. It was said that Christian Anderson had both dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). The irony is that she ended up as a writer and able to weave fantastic tales for children all over the world. Nothing short of a miracle.
The bottom line is that being diagnosed with LD is not a life sentence to misery nor will a person with LD be condemned as abnormal with a doomed future. All is not lost. With self-determination and the belief that one has the strength to overcome the symptoms of LD and excel, the sky will the limit.
Some of the great leaders have trouble reading all their lives. Yet not only did they overcome their disability but they went on to do great things for their nations. Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom had dyslexia so was the Vice President of the United States of America Nelson Rockfeller and yet they provide excellent leadership to these two great nations. The famous military leader General George Patton had reading problem as well but this did not deter him from becoming one of the most prominent military personality of his time.
Business leaders have a fair share of dyslexics too. Walt Disney and Charles Schwab are examples of people with learning abilities that built up large corporations to support the lives of hundreds if not thousands of their employees.
Whoopi Goldberg, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise all have the common defect in reading. It was said that Tom Cruise learned his lines by getting someone to read the script to him and he memorise them- no mean feat. He must have a supersized memory.
The most intriguing example of LD suffers made good is Hans Christian Anderson, a famous creator of fairy tales. It was said that Christian Anderson had both dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). The irony is that she ended up as a writer and able to weave fantastic tales for children all over the world. Nothing short of a miracle.
The bottom line is that being diagnosed with LD is not a life sentence to misery nor will a person with LD be condemned as abnormal with a doomed future. All is not lost. With self-determination and the belief that one has the strength to overcome the symptoms of LD and excel, the sky will the limit.
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