Dyslexic Achiever

Andrew Menzies
(Movie Art Director)
The Strengths
Having a learning disability is not a disadvantage; it's just a different learning style. The "New Economy" needs and rewards exactly this kind of abilities. There is already a great demand for creative and problem solving abilities. We only need to be nurturing them, so they have the opportunity to shine and to serve humanity.
- Curiosity and creativity
- A great and lively imagination
- The ability to figure things out
- Eager embrace of new ideas
- Getting the gist of things
- A good understanding of new concepts
- Surprising maturity
- Enjoyment in solving puzzles
- Talent at building models.
- Excellent comprehension of stories read or told to him
- Perception: the ability to alter and create perceptions
- Highly aware of the environment
- Ability to come up with original insights
- Thinking and perceiving multi-dimensionally
- Can experience thought as reality
- A noticeable resilience and ability to adapt
- See patterns, connections, and similarities very easy
- Ability to get the "big picture"
- High concentration
- Can be very driven, ambitious and persistent
- Superior reasoning and love for complexity
- Simultaneous multiple thought processing
- The ability for visual, spatial and lateral thinking
- Excellent thinking skills: conceptualization, reasoning, imagination, abstraction
- Often have good "people" skills and a very good at "reading" people (intuitive)
- A surprisingly sophisticated listening vocabulary
- Excellence in areas not dependent on reading, such as math, computers, and visual arts
- A noticeable articulateness in the expression of ideas and feelings
- Exceptional empathy and warmth, and feeling for others
- Success in areas not dependent on rote memory
- Inclination to think out of the box
Opportunities
Following wide range of careers are best suited to their respective inherent talent:- Science/research
- Psychology
- Teaching
- Manager in people-relate occupations
- Businesspeople in general
- Marketing and sales
- Interior/Garden/model design
- Culinary arts
- Woodworking
- Carpentry
- Artist
- Painter/sculptor
- Actor
- Architecture
- Designer
- Mechanics
- Engineering
- Photography
- Music
- Athletics
- Computing
- Software design
- Electronics