David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

and inadequate. The struggle did not
give her a new appreciation of science.
It scared her away from science. But
there are times and places where
struggles have the opposite effect—
where what seems like the kind of
obstacle that ought to cripple an
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Can dyslexia turn out to be a
desirable difficulty? It is hard to believe
that it can, given how many people
struggle with the disorder throughout
their lives—except for a strange fact. An
extraordinarily high number of
successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. A
recent study by Julie Logan at City