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Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia
NY Times ^
| December 6, 2007
| BRENT BOWERS
Posted on 12/08/2007 7:08:55 PM PST by neverdem
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:08:56 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
Humans are an amazingly adaptive bunch.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:11:50 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: neverdem
We used to call it being ambidextrous. I can drive a hammer with either hand. The only time it was a problem was when I was driving submarines, specially when headed south, which one does a lot in the higher latitudes. If I actually wanted to turn more than 180 degrees, I had to add the phrase, “the long way”, to my rudder and course order, or the helmsman would question the order.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:13:34 PM PST
by
SubMareener
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To: Grimmy
If you don’t have welfare, or someone convincing you that you are a victim of the Republican’s policies then it’s amazing what people can achieve when necessity if the mother of invention.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:15:49 PM PST
by
Aria
(NO RAPIST ENABLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)
To: neverdem
I intned read to this later
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:15:59 PM PST
by
fso301
To: SubMareener
Ambidextrous != dyslexic.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:16:45 PM PST
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: Aria
Yep.
Make failure painless and you make failure ubiquitous.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:18:11 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: neverdem
Isnt GW supposed to br dyslexic?
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:21:14 PM PST
by
woofie
To: neverdem
There is also a surprisingly high incidence of dyslexia among those of in the ‘blackboard sciences’—mathematics and theoretical physics.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:24:27 PM PST
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: woofie
Isnt GW supposed to br dyslexic? Nelson Rockafeller was dyslexic, and it didn't stop him from being the son of a multi-millionaire!
when I die, I hope to go out like Nelson! ;0)
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:25:12 PM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(Real men don't vote Democrat.)
To: neverdem
To bad I am lexdysia.
<< Matthew 6:3 >>
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
“But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
This is also how I play the piano.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:26:45 PM PST
by
ThomasThomas
(An investigative journalist is one who uses spellcheck.)
To: neverdem
I wonder if any of them run a business helping dyslexics?
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:35:46 PM PST
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! Duncan Hunter is a Cosponsor.)
To: woofie
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:37:46 PM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
To: Aria; chicagojp
If you dont have welfare... Funny you would mention that. I know of a 19 year old that was just put on welfare for this very thing. S/he is now considered disabled with all the bennies that come with it.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:40:58 PM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
To: neverdem
I’m particularly “bad” with phone numbers... something screws me up between my brain hearing the numbers and copying them down on paper. I usually just copy it 3 times now...and best two out of three is what I dial.
On another silly note.... I can handwrite impeccably backwards....faster than I can write forwards. Held up to a mirror...my backwards writing is neater than when I attempt to write forwards.
Go figure.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:45:49 PM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: taxed2death
....and yes, I am self employed and run 3 businesses.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:46:42 PM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: neverdem
Dyslexics of the World, Untie!!
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:49:26 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: neverdem
William Hewlett of HP was dyslexic; mediocre in school until late
in college/grad school. He honed his skill at listening intently
to instructors and remembering lectures as he really couldn’t take good notes.
This and other great tidbits in the fine history of HP titled,
“Bill And Dave”.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:49:56 PM PST
by
VOA
To: coloradan
But might there be an association? My family has ambidexterity, left handedness and dyslexia all over the place and often in the same people?
A relative of mine was known for being able to write two different texts simultaneously.
To: SubMareener
yeah. true. now everything's a disorder.
people often run their own businesses because for some reason they just don't jive with that great, big mediocre mass of everyday corporate...well, I won't call them sardines or lemmings because they're not necessarily bad folks.
Who knows, self employment may be God's gift to the misfit -- the individual. I've been self employed most of my life.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:53:51 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(hillary clinton is vladimir putin in drag.)
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