The Gift of Dyslexic Thinking | Richard Coope

The Gift of Dyslexic Thinking | Richard Coope | TEDxFrensham

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2 жыл бұрын

The speaker takes us on his personal journey of understanding and accepting his neurodiversity and the steps he now takes towards championing dyslexic thinking as a super power in our age of robots. Thinking differently is not a disability in this age, it is a huge asset to all businesses and educational settings. A digital leader with 25 years of experience, Richard has been a Digital Director in 5 of the UK's largest independent agencies and runs his own digital consultancy, called Brightful. During the pandemic, Richard founded a not-for-profit social enterprise, called Winchester Creatives CIC, that helped to significantly reduce the feelings of hopelessness, job despair and isolation in young unemployed people under the age of 25 in Hampshire. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@erinputney6774 2 жыл бұрын

Well snap. Years of feeling less than adequate, just to realize it is a super power 😊 thank you for sharing!

@femdev Жыл бұрын

Thank you! You just explained to my son why his recently confirmed dyslexia is a ‘learning difference, not a learning difficulty’, that it does not destroy his life but rather is a beautiful added value. With 12 years he already saw his life as a failure after so many years of struggling. Now he has hope. I cannot thank you enough for your words! 💖

@philmasters5646 11 ай бұрын

let me give you some more hope, up until 3 years ago our daughter could hardly write the CAT SAT on the MAT. Today she is writing complexed and amazing poetry and at 13 she is already an accomplished singer songwriter and last month she told me that she was writing a book. Miracles do happen but you need to be your own expert.

@daveburgess1791 6 ай бұрын

By the way your son does not "have dyslexia" he is a dyslexic. I'm not correcting you because you didn't exactly say it that way but I would bet that it was presented to you that way by educators. When being labeled with the affliction of "having dyslexia" it becomes the moment that they (we) begin to feel like a burden or a failure. We have to educate the educators on how to educate dyslexics in order to cultivate their super power. It took me over 15 years to find, explore, and finally utilize mine on my own. I had a 50/50 chance of having a dyslexic child and that exactly happened. He is now a brilliant college student because I told his tester/teacher not to tell him that he "had" anything "wrong" with him. I asked her to say that he was a 1 out of 5 person with some unique challenges ahead, and to ask him if he felt that he was up to the challenge? The 5 year old stood proud and said YES!

@kateszablewska1915 4 ай бұрын

Kablammy!!! :)Thank you, Richard! Our son was just diagnosed with dyslexia. Your talk is very inspiring and encouraging!!! Thank you for sharing!!

@kylee7650 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this message and this amazing work, I got diagnosed with dyslexia in second grade and grew up always knowing I thought differently than everyone else. This made me smile so much today because I just graduated from college and have been on the job hunt specifically for that creative space where my thoughts can be understood and used to make a change, and after watching this video I know that not only does space exists for me, but it's growing! To anyone else who thinks like me, who happens to find this random comment, just know with the right amount of perseverance, perspective, and creative thinking we can change the world bit by bit❤

@elainenaturinda4302 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Richard Coope. It’s a blessing to watch this. Your life story is very similar to mine but instead it’s my dad. I have recently found out I have dyslexia I’m 20 , but I will forever take on the world w the words I’m more than the words I find difficult to spell. ❤️

@travisman5869 Жыл бұрын

I spent 27 years on this planet and I can relate to so much of this. I had a hard time in school and I found these videos on KZfaq the really inspiring not that I’m not successful now it’s just I always was self-conscious because of my spelling and grammar was not very good at my work ethic was very good. Time but I’ve always been afraid to look it up. For some reason I didn’t want to learn about it. I’m glad I just randomly started to look into it because it makes a lot of sense on why my brain works. The way it dose

@Ruffest Жыл бұрын

Same happened to me, primary school said I "will never do anything where reading or writing is concerned" went to high school and got instant help. I've learnt to deal with my dyslexia and I now write safety documents for a living 😂 I wouldn't change it for anything.

@FPSZeb Жыл бұрын

Teared up a few times watching this growing up being told you're lesser or broken so many times you actually start to believe it.

@charlottearty8157 11 ай бұрын

Thats me!!! The incredible ideas i have you have brought to my attention - omg i love this talk i thank you!!

@nikolugo 6 ай бұрын

I try my best to not look at this as a bad thing it's kind of hard not to because all the bad memories I had grown up keep coming back

@KindQuotes Жыл бұрын

You are inspiring ❤ I heavily rely on digital support as spell checking or calculation. School was a true challenge with teachers always trying to put me down in front of other students, yet I had stronger links with different parties. I always felt we are different and my strength helped me in other areas of life and work, where “high IQ and MBA” colleagues couldn’t connect dots, be empathetic or understanding. I trust we all deserve the same respect and our differences only compliment each other. No one should be considered less. The world is more beautiful with differences we have and we should support and uplift each other.

@nancymartin462 3 ай бұрын

Gosh, what a brilliant & beautiful story! Here for my children… definitely see it as a beautiful blessing & super power!

@scottsmith2869 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the explanation. I’m 53 and just learned 8 years ago that I have DD. I was. I was doing a study to identify DD in student. When you were explaining your learning in grade school just like me, we were put into a special learning class!! Of corse these special teachers didn’t know that we had DD and certainly did not know how to help us learn!

@emmawaghorn9374 Жыл бұрын

This is amazing I am going to share this on my Uni padlet and THANK YOU

@Red-Feather Жыл бұрын

I like the way he has to read his cards. True dyslectic

@ewoods7753 11 ай бұрын

Love you spell dyslexic wrong and just don’t care ( autocorrect fixed my spelling for dyslexic)😊

@Torquenation Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you Sir.

@seamusomallie Жыл бұрын

Many thanks

@spiritheartgodsandgoddesse4807 7 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

@michellebarbour5777 9 ай бұрын

Great talk. Very honest and loved the neuro-science. Maybe in future, similar talks, some of us female dyslexics could appear on the screen of 'amazing dyslexics'? You might include - Cher, Whoopi Goldberg, Agatha Chrtie, Octavia Spencer, Ann Bancroft..to name a few.

@ruslanbip7333 7 ай бұрын

dyslexic is the root of all troubles i face in life

@matthewvinsonhaler934 Жыл бұрын

I can attest to it! I’m dislexic and I came up with BananzaBooglieBob!

@Da1Dez 7 ай бұрын

I met this man once at a lecture and approached him after the talk, offering my hand out and to have a casual chat. I believed him to be a nice, helpful and approachable man. However, his facade changed after I did so; he came across as rude and dismissive and quickly moved me away to another person and began controlling me what to say to the other person, before briskly leaving. It ended up being an awkward and forced chat with someone else that I hadn't anticipated and I felt kind of rubbish from how I was spoken to by Mr Coope.

@user-md9yv7jx2c 7 ай бұрын

"SUPERCALIFRAGIEXPIALDOSUSH" I swear that was the word I came up with. And Grammerly accepted it? 😀

@davidgray3321 10 ай бұрын

Dyslexics are not one of a kind, it is not a uniform experience, nor are they of similar IQ to my knowledge, I am a dyslexic and it has been a pain in the Ar.. right from the start. Many dyslexics become tenacious and stick at it, many do not. My advise is try to influence your dyslexic child’s ability to persist, find what they are good at and go with that. If I was young I couldn’t partake of the world this man describes because I cannot use computers, I should have been a craftsman, but boys of my class, old fashioned but relevant point, didn’t do that. I was born in 1961. I fought my way into and through the university system and constantly find people are bemused by my uneven ability, I think they think I am mucking about.

@davidgray3321 10 ай бұрын

The volume is low even when on max. Who is this man? I want to know a bit more about Ted speakers for all I know he is not worth listening to.

@maureengreen8240 7 ай бұрын

WOWZA! I HAVE ALWAYS LOOKED AT HAVING.ADDHAD AS A GIFT. I AM NEVER BORED. COWABUNGA!!! HOLY CRAPPOLA!!! GEEZO GEESO!!BOYZA!. I LOVE EXGLAMTORY WORDS AND INTERSECTIONS .