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

6 Dyslexia, it should be pointed out,
affects only reading. Cohn’s facility with
numbers was unaffected. The one person
who believed in him throughout his
childhood, Cohn says, was his
grandfather, and it was because his
grandfather realized that young Gary had
committed the entire inventory of the
family’s plumbing supplies business to
memory.
7 This chapter is about that long. If
Gary Cohn wants to read about himself,
he will have to sit down and clear a
substantial space on his schedule. “To
really understand it, read it, comprehend
it, look up all the words I didn’t know,
look up the word and realize, oh, that’s