Shark Tank’s Daymond John Gives Advice About How to See Dyslexia as a Strength
Daymond John talks about how dyslexia helped give him the strength to succeed.
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After I started to talk about being dyslexic, and as I researched it, I have to reallylook at it and say it's an asset. And I think the asset is that when I had toread something, I had to read it five times. When,you know, I saw the opportunity of co-op to go to school one week and workthe other, I went to work. I always just visualized and concentrated on thingsbecause maybe the theory is we're not getting, you know, dyslexics don't getcaught up reading books and reading how it should be done and go out and executehow it should be done. And it's funny, you know, I walk in a room—I'll do a speaking engagement for 5,000people, I'll say, "How many people in here are dyslexic?" Four people raise their hand, right?And it's usually the CEOs and very, very powerful people that raise their hands,but people that wo...
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After I started to talk about being dyslexic, and as I researched it, I have to reallylook at it and say it's an asset. And I think the asset is that when I had toread something, I had to read it five times. When,you know, I saw the opportunity of co-op to go to school one week and workthe other, I went to work. I always just visualized and concentrated on thingsbecause maybe the theory is we're not getting, you know, dyslexics don't getcaught up reading books and reading how it should be done and go out and executehow it should be done. And it's funny, you know, I walk in a room—I'll do a speaking engagement for 5,000people, I'll say, "How many people in here are dyslexic?" Four people raise their hand, right?And it's usually the CEOs and very, very powerful people that raise their hands,but people that wo...
