Dyslexia
topic on 5 shows · 11 statements across 7 episodes
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Weitzman: 40% of incarcerated people have dyslexia versus 17% of general population
“40% of people who are incarcerated have dyslexia, even though 17% of the population has it.”
Weitzman: Dyslexia and ADHD suit large company CEOs, not early-stage builders
“It's great to be dyslexic or ADHD as the person who is running a large company, and it's not great as the individual person who needs to build the company.”
Growing up dyslexic forced Peter Rahal to devalue traditional educational institutions
“So, like, growing up dyslexic to protect myself and my self-esteem, I had to disagree with And devalue the institution that was grading me.”
Adam Neumann: AI helps dyslexic individuals write without spelling mistakes
“I have a lot of dyslexic friends now who keep, everyone keeps calling me about how they're using AI to write stuff because it's just, they're not making mistakes anymore because my kind of dyslexia, even when you do the auto, even if you need, when you did it …”
Dyslexia forces many into entrepreneurship because traditional jobs refuse to hire them
“There's a, there's an amazing amount of entrepreneurs who are dyslexic. And I attribute it back to the fact is it's because we couldn't get jobs. We just went to create our own thing. Cause we couldn't like, we had to figure out our own way to work.”
Lichaw: Dyslexia is very common among founders and CEOs
“I work with a lot of founders, CEOs, and senior executives who are dyslexic. Very, very, very common, especially for CEOs.”
Lichaw: Dyslexic spatial thinking helps founders build companies and lead
“When you're dyslexic, you're thinking spatially, you're thinking big, you're thinking visually, you're not, you know, so yes, you mix up letters or you're struggling with big blocks of text. That's fine. If you're like founding a company, you know, you're not …”
Cameron: Adjusting screen contrast mitigates dyslexia reading fatigue
“A typical person with dyslexia looking at white text, sorry, white background, black text will find that all the words will like float around the page and they'll really struggle to follow the lines like left to right. And it makes reading really, really tirin…”
Cameron: Rigid CV formats systematically disadvantage dyslexic job applicants
“Dyslexia does not lend itself very well to writing you know, pages about you, and writing them well. You know, dyslexia, people tend to put in, you know, the wrong word, they'll put in spelling mistakes, they'll struggle with the organization of the CV, the ac…”