Mr. Ham
Greenwood High School

• What determines one’s ability to achieve success?
– Money
– Fame
– Position
– Looks
– Intelligence
– Strength

It All Comes Down to Matters of the
Heart!

“Anyone can become angry- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way- this is not easy.”
Aristotle

Famous People with Learning
Disabilities
• Albert Einstein
– He did not speak until age 3.
– He was thought to be simple minded, until it was realized that he was able to achieve by visualizing rather than by the use of language.
– His work on relativity, which revolutionized modern physics, was created in his spare time.
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

• He was unable to read until he was twelve years old and his writing skills were poor throughout his life.

• He was unable to spell throughout his life and his grammar usage was very poor.
• His brother suggested that perhaps surveying in the backwoods might be an appropriate career for young George.

• President of the USA and Nelson Rockefeller,
Vice President of USA, were both severely dyslexic.

• Is unable to read due to severe dyslexia.
• He is able to memorize lines and perform on stage and screen.

• As a child he was struck on the head by an overseer.
• The blow fractured her skull and resulted in narcolepsy for the rest of her life.
• At the age of 29 she escaped from slavery and lead others to freedom throughout the course of her life.

• At the age of twelve he fell off a horse while visiting a farm several hours from his Kentucky home.
• From that point forward he experienced periods of “dazing off ” and completely being unaware of his surroundings.

• U.S. President (1882-1945)
– Due to polio, he was mostly confined to a wheelchair throughout most of his life.

• Albert Einstein
• Henry Ford
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Charles Schwab
• Walt Disney
• George Burns
• Cher
• Jay Leno
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Danny Glover
• Greg Louganis
• General George Patton
• Winston Churchill
• Woodrow Wilson
• Nelson Rockefeller

• Mel Tillis, 1976 Country
Music Entertainer of the
Year
• James Earl Jones, over came stuttering by reading
Shakespeare alone in a field
• Bruce Willis
• Charles 1, King from 1625-
1649
• Charles Darwin
• Bob Love, 3x NBA All-Star and led Chicago Bulls in scoring for 7 consecutive seasons
• Walter Annenberg, founder of TV Guide & Seventeen
• Clara Barton, founder of
American Red Cross
• Marilyn Monroe

• Lord Byron
• Charles Dickens
• Agatha Christie
• Alexander the Great
• Julius Caesar
• Socrates
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo

Famous People who have Battled
Depression
• Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
• Ned Beatty, actor
• C.E. Chaffin, writer & poet
• John Daly, golf pro
• Gordon Summer (Sting), top
25 performers in 2001
• Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Barbara Bush, former 1 st
Lady
• Drew Carey
• Jim Carey
• Dick Clark
• Sheryl Crow
• Queen Elizabeth
• Anthony Hopkins
• Janet Jackson
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Boris Yeltsin, former
President, Russia
• George Stephenopoulos

Other Famous People with Learning
Disabilities
• John F. Kennedy
• George C. Scott
• Tom Smothers
• “Magic” Johnson
• Carl Lewis
• Sylvester Stallone
• John Lennon
• Robert Kennedy
• Wright Brothers
• Thomas Thoreau
• George Bernard Shaw
• Beethoven
• Galileo
• Mozart
• Henry Winkler
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Robin Williams
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Dustin Hoffman
• Werner Von Braun, brains behind 1 st generation of rocketry

Everyone has misfortunes.
Life is defined by how we handle this misfortunes.
“10% of the problem we can’t control. However, it is the 90% that we can control that determines the outcome.”
• Lack confidence
• Worry
• Become angry
• Blame others