Dyslexia – The Upside of Being Outside
Claude Monet, Soleil Levant, 1872 Last week in my article When Disadvantage Gives You Advantage I wrote about how writer Malcolm Gladwell in his book David and Goliath explored how sometimes dyslexia can be a “desirable difficulty” - a major challenge that requires a person to adapt and learn new behavior in order to survive and thrive. In several sections of his book Gladwell writes about how often successful people come from “outside” the establishment of a particular industry. He told of how Impressionist artists finally emerged on the art scene in the 1870s only after they broke-off [...]