How to make the world dyslexic & bran-friendly

Chi Chat – is your world dyslexic / brain-friendly?

As a business person would you take attention if 20% of your potential audience were confused and turned off by your product or service? I think so!

Have you considered what you could do to make the world – your part of it – a more dyslexic / brain-friendly place? This would invite and additional 20% of customers!

Here is the third part of the interview when I am asked about every day challenges for a dyslexic – are some of them the same for you as well?

What things make the world UN-friendly for you?

The interesting thing is that making a product or service more dyslexic friendly, is actually good for ALL brains!

Time to vote!

  1. Would you rather be presented with a report written in Times Roman, small font, light grey, nearly filling the page from side to side and top to bottom, OR
    2. an overview map of the report, followed by pages with images and diagrams and visual interest?

3. Same with a presentation, a drone on for 1 hour, reading and not even looking up,
OR
4. a dynamic, involving, seeing, hearing and experiencing session, less than 45 minutes, with a overview, details and a summary?

I vote for: 1. ________ or 2. _______; 3. _______ or 4. _________ ???

And here is another example, true for EVERY brain, and increasingly confusing for a dyslexic one.
PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT – NOT WHAT YOU DON’T WANT!!

Examples: ‘Don’t walk on the grass’; NO left turn; NO running; ‘Don’t forget the…’
The negative statement is ubiquitous!
And you can’t do a don’t!!

Another example: Promise me you will NOT think about what I am about to mention…
Do NOT think of a blue hippopotamus in a pink ballet tutu!
And… what do you have in your head right now?? YES!
And if you coloured him pink, you know he really is blue!

Little things really mean a lot for ALL brains to function at their best.

Please let me know your dyslexic difficulties

How low will you go? 

Chi & I look forward to seeing / hearing from YOU!!!

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Chi Chat – What? A dyslexic speed reader? YES! And here’s how…

You probably do not think of dyslexia and speed reading together.

However, in this interview, I share some really life changing facts.

Continuing the interview with Jazzy Olive and her super Falmouth University students, the second question was about the BENEFITS of being dyslexic – here I have a chance to say a few of what they are for me!

How a dyslexic person can be a speed reader.

So, is it possible for a dyslexic person to be a speed reader?
Well yes! Some years ago I was the 3rd fastest reader in the world speed reading competition. The way for anyone to read more efficiently (for business, study etc.) is to go fast through creating a frame. Using a guide and building to the level of comprehension you need.

For a dyslexic person it is imperrative!

Here is a link to the interview where I explain this and the other ADvantages.
One of the other advantages I really enjoy is having a brain that is fun to live in!
My brain is also very imagistic, so I can ‘see’ abstract concepts. A joke may be re-seen and re-enjoyed many times over. Bad images need to be quickly removed.

Mind maps and the dyslexic brain

Here is the secret key to how I function, at quite a busy, high powered level, by using Mind Maps. If it is information in, after I have sped read it, I map the frame and then add the detail I need to the appropriate branch.
If it is to organise anything, from writing a book to organising a 600 people conference, or what to say in a difficult conversation, or on a video presentation, I map it! Job done in very little time.

Please do explore all the ABitities you DO possess.

Please let me know your dyslexic ABitities!

How low will you go? 

Chi & I look forward to seeing / hearing from YOU!!!

To request a 15 minute Mind Chi Chat with Vanda to explore how Mind Chi might assist you, your group, team or company build resilience and joy! 
Vanda@TheChangeMakergroup.com or Vanda@MindChi.com

And for more marvellous Mind Chi blogs:

Want more resilience for your organisation, here:

Here is a short cartoon about ‘Resilience for Change’