How Did Steve Jobs Overcome Dyslexia?

Dyslexia doesn’t always have to be considered an element that dictates the outcome of a person’s life. There are numerous success filled inspirational stories of individuals with dyslexia that learned to overcome the disorder and refuse to allow it to inhibit their abilities. Steve Jobs is one of the most successful people diagnosed with dyslexia. At a young age, he struggled in school with reading and writing. One incidence left Jobs to try comprehending one phrase for many years until the age of 11 that read, ‘Janet and John had a ball.’ As a child, Jobs was an outsider and considered an odd, word-blind student who just didn’t fit in with the rest of his peers. Schools did not recognize dyslexia as it is recognized today and therefore, students with learning disorders like these were neglected.

Perhaps a political move to maintain good test scores. Numerous time he was told that he would go nowhere in life, however he decided to change his future for himself. He set the goal to complete the book Wuthering Heights and go to Art school, which he successful did both. Jobs considers his disorder a gift because he believes he and other dyslexic individuals were given a unique gift to see the world through images alone. He’s become fluent in reading people’s faces, building structures, landscapes and all other visual parts of the world for what they are. There aren’t many dyslexic role models for children and adults today that welcome the disability, however actress Keira Knightley, F. Scott Ftizgerald, Agatha Christie, John Lennon and Einstein himself, embrace it and made it a strength rather than a weakness. Einstein is quoted, once saying, Imagination is more important than knowledge”(Gardner,