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

University London puts the number
somewhere around a third. The list
includes many of the most famous
innovators of the past few decades.
Richard Branson, the British billionaire
entrepreneur, is dyslexic. Charles
Schwab, the founder of the discount
brokerage that bears his name, is
dyslexic, as are the cell phone pioneer
Craig McCaw; David Neeleman, the
founder of JetBlue; John Chambers, the
CEO of the technology giant Cisco; Paul
Orfalea, the founder of Kinko’s—to
name just a few. The neuroscientist
Sharon Thompson-Schill remembers
speaking at a meeting of prominent
university donors—virtually all of them