Don’t let dyslexia get you down
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It’s Not What You Are That Holds You Back…
A while back I spoke to a group in Houston and I showed them pictures of some very famous people.
They included Thomas Edison, Cher, Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Jay Leno, Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Turner and my hero Winston Churchill.
Then I asked the audience what they all had in common.
Can you guess?
There were quite a few answers from the audience and they were all wrong. It was only after I pulled out $100 and offered it as a prize that a person in the back overcame his fear of being wrong and volunteered the correct answer….
….they were all dyslexic!
I pointed out that the role that made each of them famous also required a lot of reading. Do you know how hard it is for a dyslexic person to read?
But not a single one of those great people that I cited let dyslexia keep them from being all they were created to be.
That’s why one of my most favorite quotes is, “It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not.”
Denis Waitley
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