March 2019
Beginner
240 pages
3h 40m
English
My upbringing allowed me to be comfortable with failure. The one trait in a lot of dyslexic people I know is that by the time we got out of college, our ability to deal with failure was very highly developed. And so, we look at most situations and see much more of the upside than the downside. Because we’re so accustomed to the downside. It doesn’t faze us. I thought about it many times, I really have, because it defined who I am. I wouldn’t be where I am today without my dyslexia. I never would’ve taken that first chance.
—GARY COHN
Gary Cohn grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, a product of the 1960s, with middle-class values and a blue-collar work ethic. As a child, Cohn was diagnosed with dyslexia. ...