What if the greatest asset you'll ever own isn't your house or a hot stock, but the very thing most unique about yourself?

Russell Van Brocklen went to law school reading and writing at a first grade level. He learned to read there, then built a method out of what worked and convinced the New York State Senate to fund it. His original program is owned by the SUNY Research Foundation, and he spent more than a decade training New York City special education teachers. Today he runs DyslexiaClasses.com.

In this episode, Russell explains why a student's specialty is the only viable entry point, what happens to motivation outside it, why he starts specific and works outward, how word analysis on your own writing comes before the writing gets good, what a ten year old reading at a second grade level did with a 900 page biography, and how that habit lets a young adult read a loan document instead of just signing it.

Chapters:

• 02:12 - A $29,000 Gap Between Reading Levels
• 05:36 - New York State Funded This Method
• 07:10 - Ten Years Old and 900 Pages In
• 10:31 - Half of Freshmen Misjudge Their Debt
• 12:40 - Start With a Movie You Know Cold
• 15:10 - Hero, Goal, Villain, and Conflict
• 16:45 - Type It Out Then Take It Apart
• 21:45 - Credit Card Fine Print Costs You More
• 25:00 - Fifteen Minutes a Week Is Enough
• 27:45 - Reward the First Sale and Repeat
• 31:00 - Trapped in a System Built by Adults
• 33:05 - Reading Every Night for 19 Years
• 38:15 - Start With What You Already Love
• 41:20 - Write First Then Mine Your Own Words
• 43:30 - Explain It or Do Not Sign It

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Episode References & Resources:

ℹ️ Definition of human capital - OECD, The Well-being of Nations (2001) https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2001/05/the-well-being-of-nations_g1gh268d.html

ℹ️ US adults at the lowest literacy level, 2017 versus 2023 - NCES, PIAAC (2024) https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/2023/national_results.asp

ℹ️ Wage gap across the adult literacy scale - OECD, Survey of Adult Skills https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/about/programmes/edu/piaac/reports/2013-Skills-for-Life-Key-Findings-from-the-Survey-of-Adult-Skills.pdf

ℹ️ Concrete to abstract instruction beats the reverse - Fyfe, McNeil, Son and Goldstone, Educational Psychology Review (2014) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-014-9249-3

Connect with Russell:

🌐 Website - https://dyslexiaclasses.com

💼 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-van-brocklen-2007ab87

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