They make the unknown known. Everybody else exploits (in good or bad ways, sometimes both) the known world. The person who has the aha! moment is not the person who should be running the show after the discovery. IMHO
Here is a study that goes into it:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unleashed-power-dyslexia-oscar-serret
THE UNLEASHED POWER OF DYSLEXIA.
.Oscar Serret
Published May 12, 2023
"SNIP..........
Based on facts and figures, it seems that dyslexia is widely scattered on the planed, no matter if you are men or women, black or white, born in the north or in the south…. more less the 20% of the population is dyslexic and such uniformity suggests that there is more behind it, that for sure is not related with food, contamination, temperature… scientist start having evidence that it is more related with the evolution and the survival of the humans as a specie, and it is something that has been shaped through thousands of years of evolution. How this could be explained?
To survive and to evolve anyone needs two abilities: first exploitation and second, exploration. Exploitation is the capacity of obtaining the goods that environment supplies, just to survive on the daily bases. But what happens when “the daily bases” changes or even disappears? Then you need to be prepared to front face unknown situations. To be prepared means that before the fatality arrive, someone has had to explore and to look for new and different options, here is when the ability of exploration is required. It is clear, that we need to craft two different abilities and at this point the magics of the evolution starts driving the fate. On one side, in the primitive and hostile environment humans just were mainly another source of food battling against other species to get their piece of meat and on the other side the wild environment was continuously changing. Pressure to survive biased human’s brain to increase the level of specialization, at the end of the day, the more focused the better you are, so we were split in two communities: the exploiters and the explorers, but to put all in value then collaboration was needed, otherwise it would have not worked.
Non dyslexic people (the exploiters) usually tend to be more structured so that is why they have better writing and speaking abilities, they make better choices… this make them managers, good speakers… on the other side, dyslexics (the explorers) are curios, easy lateral thinkers, have a natural tendency for the discovery and for breaking the rules, otherwise the evolution is impossible… so that is why many of the choose more creative topics like arts, engineering… at the end of the story each human has only one brain so the only way of potentiating the capacity is deep specialization, so or you are explorer or a exploiter, but neither both at once.
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