Barbara Corcoran“I was labeled the ‘dumb kid’ that couldn’t read or write, coming all through to when I was graduating in high school,” Corcoran told CNBC Make It. As a result, she was a straight-D student throughout her childhood.
But Corcoran didn’t allow this to stop her from achieving success. Now, she even says “dyslexia made me a millionaire,” as she wrote on LinkedIn on Monday.
“I spent 6 hours a day daydreaming in class, and by 3rd grade I just gave up,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “My mom’s response was, ‘Don’t worry about it. You have a wonderful imagination; you’ll learn to fill in the blanks.’ That was powerful for me, and I’ve leaned on that my whole life.”
Elon Musk“I was labeled the ‘dumb kid’ that couldn’t read or write, coming all through to when I was graduating in high school,” Corcoran told CNBC Make It. As a result, she was a straight-D student throughout her childhood.
But Corcoran didn’t allow this to stop her from achieving success. Now, she even says “dyslexia made me a millionaire,” as she wrote on LinkedIn on Monday.
“I spent 6 hours a day daydreaming in class, and by 3rd grade I just gave up,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “My mom’s response was, ‘Don’t worry about it. You have a wonderful imagination; you’ll learn to fill in the blanks.’ That was powerful for me, and I’ve leaned on that my whole life.”