The interior designer struggled through school, unable to read or spell due to dyslexia. But, she says, it has helped shape her success
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I later found out that it is a technique that is now taught to people with dyslexia, but I’d figured it out on my own. That power of visualisation has been essential to my career – I know that for me as a designer my visual strengths are way higher than they would be if I had not been dyslexic. I can walk into a blank room and visualise what it will be like, with furniture in certain places, changing the colours and picturing it complete.
About a year later I had a friend whose boyfriend – who was a famous racing driver – needed his house designing and my friend liked the style that I’d decorated my own place. I got myself headed paper and business cards and went out to all the design shops to do my research on foot. Within five minutes of meeting him, I had the job.
I did have confidence issues in lots of areas of my life when I was younger – how I looked, how I went about business – but one thing I always believed in was the vision that I created for my projects.
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