Eddy's Good News: Super dyslexic brains and a renowned architect's house for a child's dog

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29 Jun 2022, 10:20

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Encouraging news from here in the UK and a study into the brains of people who have dyslexia which clearly shows they’ve been severely misunderstood: These people are geniuses!

Did you know Albert Einstein was dyslexic? I’ve mentioned Leonardo having dyslexia before? What about Steve Jobs, the inventor of Apple Computers?

Say hello to the latest study by Cambridge University into the, as it turns out, super brains of people with dyslexia. We’re told it’s a learning difficulty, but what it actually is is a difference, and people with it just process information differently and can do superhuman things when it comes to solving problems and adapting to challenges. That’s because their brains are hard wired to explore the unknown. This accounts for why you find so many people with this condition that go into the arts, music, architecture, engineering and entrepreneurship. Richard Branson, who started Virgin and own our logo? Dyslexic. Stephen Hawking? Dyslexic. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy? All dyslexic. This plays into my mantra of neurodiversity, we need to start seeing these things as super powers not disabilities!

Via goodnewsnetwork.org

Brilliant news from California where it’s emerged a youngster managed to persuade one of the world’s greatest architects to build a house for his dog!

Say hello to Jim Berger, who was 12 years old when he wrote a letter to the genius, Frank Lloyd-Wright, my favourite architect by the by, who designed the Guggenheim Museum and the sublime Falling Water, that woodland house with a stream running through it.

In 1956 his parents commissioned a home from Frank and Jim thought he’d chance his arm, after moving in, to ask for a doghouse to go with it, for Eddie, his labrador retriever.

Frank Lloyd Wright, probably the busiest architect on planet earth in 1956, wrote back to the boy and said that a house for Eddie would be an opportunity, but he wouldn’t be able to look at it for a couple of years, because of other commitments. But true to his word, the design maverick drew Jim a design on the back of an envelope and made it go perfectly with the house he designed. It featured his trademark overhanging roof. It mist surely be the greatest dog house in the world, but Eddie the labrador was unimpressed, he preferred sleeping indoors, where it was warmer.

Via goodnewsnetwork.org