BARBARA CORCORAN: How to kill your negative self-talk & use your Dyslexic Thinking to succeed

Barbara is incredibly smart, well spoken, extremely successful, and so personable. The teachers didn’t recognize her special talents, and they failed her and everyone else who is dyslexic or has difficulty in school. Failure at work is also considered a ‘bad’ thing, but you learn a lot from failure. Loved this interview. This would be great for children and teachers in school to see.

Love every word. Thank you!

Thank you for this interview. In this world people with learning differences struggle tremendously. I am dyslexic, SCT ADHD. Not a good combination. School was hell on earth for me. If that was only experience it would have been relatively easier to understand why the systems didn't work for me when I was in school. A bigger issue overall what was your family structure childhood outside of school like. If you have a high-level of family dysfunction. Generations of hand-me-downs that need to be brought into focus and understood. Today these issues are more understood, especially in the last 10 to 15 years. The whole psychiatric mental health field has changed. How I survived at an early age, my mind ability to evolve in a hostile environment a survival style I just mirrored people read room that's who I was. Doesn't do a lot for self autonomy. Just because that part really never was allowed to develop because of the constant negative input that you're not good enough, hearing that enough times you become automated self-doubt constantly criticizing yourself pure poison. I didn't realize how self automated I had become unconsciously I would say to myself horrible things. A self-fulfilling prophecy if heard from the outside you would be thrown in jail for abuse. Audiobooks saved my life. One of the first books that I purchased through audiobooks.com was The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz. About the parasite that lives in all humanity. I thought he was following me around. He described exactly the parasite that was living in me that critical voice your no good and never will be like a broken record playing over and over for the first time in my life. I think Eckart Tolle explains it as the pain body a powerful negative entity that affects people's thinking, causing rage, and other negative issues. Being in the present moment allows a person to see this entity that robs us of our joy of just being. Showing up on time to work every day with an attitude whatever was given to me I would finish for over 50 years was easy for me. It's life I struggled with to this very day. I love my solitude and my projects around my home and the constant dreams that more likely I will never finish in my lifetime.

I love this conversation, so inspiring for all dyslexics.

Thank you for sharing this interview, it was a insightful and positive watch.

Such a great interview and so relatable!

I am at the age 25 I am seeing my gifts and talents of having dyslexia it is wounderfull blessed and flearished ❤

Fantastic… thank you for sharing this!

This was amazing

I like her! ❤

Could (and should): she help more: women And/or; Dyslexics, to: make/create/set -up; their _own: business-es'?? -M.K.S.

I disagree; my anxiety, fear, hopeless, test anxiety, fear of discovery all ended after one year of being out of the school or taking classes. All of my depression was literally from being in school!