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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was interesting.
[quote]...The report, compiled by Julie Logan, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Cass Business School in London, found that more than a third of the entrepreneurs she had surveyed — 35 percent — identified themselves as dyslexic. The study also concluded that dyslexics were more likely than nondyslexics to delegate authority, to excel in oral communication and problem solving and were twice as likely to own two or more businesses...
William J. Dennis Jr., senior research fellow at the Research Foundation of the National Federation of Independent Business, a trade group in Washington, said the study’s results “fit into the pattern of what we know about small-business owners.”

“Entrepreneurs are hands-on people who push a minimum of paper, do lots of stuff orally instead of reading and writing, and delegate authority, all of which suggests a high verbal facility,” Mr. Dennis said. “Compare that with corporate managers who read, read, read.”

Indeed, according to Professor Logan, only 1 percent of corporate managers in the United States have dyslexia....[/quote]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/business/06dyslexia.html?_r=0
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My husband fits this profile. Nowadays he probably would have been diagnosed with mild dyslexia and attention deficit. He stumbled a bit through school, but managed to get into a decent college, did better studying what he liked, and ended up with advanced degrees. Proceeded to stumble through various short-term jobs and career changes, periods of unemployment, until he hit his stride running his own business. Though he's happy and successful in the sense that he seems to have found his calling, the reality is that his entire adult life he's been barely self-sufficient, at times lacked health insurance, has no savings of his own. I often think that if he hadn't married me or someone like me (stable, financially secure, professionally successful), he'd have had a very difficult life.[/quote]

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