Is there a link between the dyslexia and this, your word, obsessive drive and kind of working ethos which has carried you through your life even today? We would never be having this conversation. It wasn't for the gift of dyslexia, but it never was a gift when I was a kid. It was something I struggled with, something my mom struggled with. I can't read or write. And today that shapes me just in a substantive way. As a politician that doesn't read speeches. (06:48–06:54)
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