"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt

Richard Branson in TED / Dyslexic / ADHD / ADD

July 29, 2010 by Crystal O'Connor  
Filed under Blog, Education, Entrepreneurs

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Richard Branson is yet another successful entrepreneur that indicates he was not a good student.  He goes on to define his learning style as dyslexic and suggests a low IQ score be the result of his assesment.  Intersesting how this pattern continues to emerge in the stories of particularly successful entrepreneurs.  As the need to create jobs increases it becomes more and more important to assess the WAY we educate these students instead of assess them with scores and tests that give little to no clear prediction in regards to success, fortitude or creativity in an individual’s future.  Starting a business is risky and one of the most popular traits and characteristics of an entrepreneur is their high risk tolerance

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