Summary Of Chapter Three Dyslexics By Malcolm Gladwell

It is hard to imagine a person walking if they do not have any legs, yet three individuals metaphorically learned how to run with no legs. Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist whom has written five books, all of which were on the New York Times’ Best Seller list. He wrote a compelling essay of three dyslexic people whom refused to let their disability keep from moving forward in life. His essay is called “Successful Dyslexics” and it was taken from chapter three of his book, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. The essay and the book both focus on miraculous events occurring in situations where one outcome is expected over the other. David and Goliath was published on October 1, 2013. All three people

Bois, Grazer, and Kamprad all are born as outcasts with their dyslexia. Gladwell successfully uses interviews with the three dyslexics, analogies between people with the disability and people without it, and his use of irony about their success to argue that people with disabilities often times are pressured into compensating for their disability, in turn becoming extremely successful. Gladwell successfully uses interviews to get detailed information and facts of how they were able to be so successful, despite having Dyslexia.To illustrate, Brian Grazer, “one of the most successful movie producers in Hollywood of the past thirty years”, whom suffered from Dyslexia struggled with school so much because of his disability (5). In school, he would often be “sitting in one place for an hour and a half accomplishing nothing,” because he simply could not read the words (4). He would not see sentences and organized words, he would

David Bois, a dyslexic lawyer and litigator, has struggled with reading all his life, but he had a "childhood fascination with the law and decided that he would go to law school," which requires a lot of reading, but because of his dyslexia, he could not read like everyone else (2). Although, ever since he was born, he has been meticulously listening, because as he says, “Listening… was the only way I could learn,” he had to scramble and adapt and come up with some kind of strategy that allowed him to keep pace with everyone around him (2). His peers would be reliant on reading and studying to succeed in school, and to succeed in a law career. Thankfully, when he was in school his listening is what kept him ahead of the game because, “while everyone else furiously made notes or doodled or lapsed into daydreams,” he would focus in on everything that was said and written, and paste it all into his memory (2). He was mentally advanced compared to his fellow students, because everything he needed to study or review has already been drilled into his mind. This type of learning, of which is common amongst dyslexics is called “compensation learning,” which means they are trying “to compensate for something that [has] been taken away from them,” they do