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I want to get back to what you're saying
about your undiagnosed learning
disability. Yes.
>> And and specifically dyslexia.
>> Yes.
>> I have a friend uh Tamir Goodman. Sports
Illustrated called him the Jewish
Jordan.
>> Uh a very talented basketball player.
Actually, he was given a scholarship to
Maryland when they had a very strong
basketball program and he couldn't play
for them because he was keeping Shabas.
So he's a friend of mine. He told me
that he had dyslexia. He still has. He
has dyslexia. He said that in school he
was miserable
>> because he would look at the blackboard
>> and the letters and the numbers would
just swim around. He couldn't
>> make heads or tails of it.
>> Right?
>> But that same brain, same exact brain
when he would stand on a basketball
court and he would play point guard,
>> he would see what no one else could see
two, three plays ahead.
>> Right?
>> So he said he had to realize that he
wasn't dumb. His brain was he had a
superpower that was a liability in one
context but it was an asset in another
context. So here's my question for you.
>> Your brain that suffered so much in
school particularly undiagnosed and and
unsupported.
>> I have a lot of people who connect to my
content who are who identify as neurode
divergent or differently wired.
>> So as someone whose brain is differently
wired, what's something that you pick up
on or you see that you don't think
neurotypical or the the average person
sees.
>> That's a that's a great question because
I think that uh the creator does not
take something away without giving you
something extra and I have I have had
the ability throughout my career which
has been a blessing in my career to be
able to feel the emotions of people
>> like a sixth sense.
>> Yes. I could walk in people.
>> Yes. Yes. I could walk in the room and
address a crowd. Uh my staff knows
oftent times they would give me
something to read and I get there and
I'll look in the crowd and I can feel
that's not what they need right now.
>> Right.
>> And I think it has
>> reading the room they call it.
>> Right. Right. Right.
>> So you have a speech prepared,
>> right?
>> And it's prepared but you don't use it.
>> Right.
>> Cuz you realize
>> I'm I'm I am feeling something else. And
I've always had that feeling. And I'm
I'm sure that many people who are
dyslexic would tell you they too have
that feeling because it's not that we're
we are dumb. We learn differently and we
have to use more senses. You know, we
have been taught as children that we
have five senses. That's just not true.
We have so many more senses, but our
senses are like muscles. Uh our sense of
taste, smell, hear, and touch. We had to
learn about those. We never exercised
the muscle of our other senses.
>> No one sat you down and taught you how
to develop that sixth sense. You
probably developed it as a compensation
for the struggles you were having.
>> My question to you is,
>> is it transmittable? Could you sit
someone down and teach this to them?
>> I I I I'm I'm not sure. I don't know if
it's teachable. I saw someone a
documentary I saw the other day about a
person who was blind
>> and he used the same uh clicking sounds
as sonar.
>> Exactly. Similar to what bats use
>> and he was able to walk and be able to
tell if an object is in front of him.
>> Uh could that be taught? Possibly.
Right.
>> But being blind u did not have the
distractions of what our visual
interactions may be. And so when I read
I I love reading about unusual people
and the and the what we would call
superhuman skills they may have. In
fact, it's not super huh human. It's
just exercising those muscles. If you
exercise those muscles of all of the
talents and senses we have, many of us
can do far more than what we're doing.
Do you think that there's a way to
develop more of these or maybe even just
recognize more of these unc
unconventional Yes.
>> talents? Yes.
>> And and and here here's my real
question. Could public policy play a
role in that or is that something that
just has to come from the home or from
>> No, I think I think public policy uh can
we have to first
remove the fear we have cuz we've been
we have been
>> the fear
>> we the fear to be different because
remember we as human beings we are
communal human beings we want to be part
of the group
>> right
>> and if you all of a sudden start to talk
about the ability to do remote viewing.
You know the
>> Oh, now you're getting conspiracy
theory. That's good for the clicks.
Yeah.
>> You believe in that?
>> Yeah. Oh, without a doubt. And our
government is aware of that. It's not
>> a known thing the CIA did.
>> We use remote viewing,
>> but all of our children could be capable
of doing that, but you have to exercise
the muscle, you know. So if your if if
your son or daughter comes to you and
said, "Mom, dad, you know, I saw
something."
>> Right?
>> Instead of us embracing that and
teaching them how to continue exercise
that muscles, we look down on them and
dismiss it or we laugh at it.
>> That's where we've gone wrong. and
