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Ep. 521 — Gov. Gavin Newsom

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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I Don't Know What I'm Doing, but I Can't Read.

I had a severe learning disability dyslexia. To this day, you'll never see me including in press conference today ever read anything. And I can't do it comfortably with one exception. Those torturous exceptions where a teleprompter is required and I will have to spend 100 hours on a one hour speech just to feel comfortable with the words on the screen. But I also realized I wasn't dumb. It took me probably 30 years to realize that I wasn't stupid. That turned out to excel in business where I had a privilege of starting a business of close to a thousand employees,. No family, no inheritance, not someone else's literally pen to paper.

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