Dyslexia and entrepreneurism
They watched the group playing games and completing tests and finally spotted 4 out of the 5 - they weren't told how many there were.
Not too hard you might think (although their accuracy was impressive), but what was interesting was the statistic quoted that entrepreneurs are 3 times more likely to be dyslexic - the most famous being Richard Branson of Virgin.
So in my mind, the question is, why the correlation?
Is it that dyslexics feel excluded from normal school society and so find their own way in life?
Is it that they realise that they will never succeed by following an academic route?
Or does dyslexia bring with it (or is it the result of?) some beneficial entrepreneurial tendency.
The psychologists were looking for people who showed competitiveness, a disregard for 'the rules', strong optimism (never give up mindset) among other things.
When we speak of dyslexia as being a problem, are we not simply saying "Within the standards we set for intelligence, dyslexia is a problem"?
Perhaps dyslexia is simply the visible marker that defines a particular set of skills, approaches to life, or tendencies within an individual.
I know we have one dyslexic entrepreneur here, although whether he's a millionaire yet I'm not sure.
