(Smile File) Adult man learns to read so he can open a business

An adult man decides to overcome his lifelong disability so he can realize his dream of owning his own company.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This goes to show that you are literally never too
old to learn anything. There's a man named Ted Midgley.
He's fifty eight years old. He's a mechanic, and he
has finally achieved a lifelong dream to read. Ted was
diagnosed with dyslexy as a child and he ended up
leaving school at the age of fifteen because he just
couldn't handle it well. He decided to build the successful

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career around his passion for fast cars and motorcycles, and
he realized, if I'm going to do this business, I'm
going to have to be able to read some emails.
So he got to work, and he knew he had
achieved his goal when he was able to open and
read for the first time a copy of Speedway magazine. Ah.
That just gives me chills. That's so cool. I got
is neat