Dyslexia and Success
Monday, June 6th, 2011
Photo by Rebecca Reid
This article from the London Evening Standard, tells the story of a really wealthy and quite successful London business man, Andreas Panayioto. It’s quite fascinating, and not primarily because of his wealth.
Among other things, he talks about memorizing the shapes of whole words to help him cope. He describes how he overcomes his “handicap and become so successful.” He describes, “The flip side of dyslexia is that you develop other gifts. I’ve trained my mind to have a photographic memory. I have a phenomenal memory. It also makes you more creative in solving problems because your mind is always in a fight to comprehend the world around you. It’s always fighting, fighting, fighting. That makes you stronger because you learn to handle problems as part of life.”