Jim Brekke as sophomore in high school.
I flunked third grade. Didn’t do any better the second time then the first. Had a learning disability in phonetic analysis. Just another fancy term that means you can’t spell. I had other talents which I started to work on. Now I have nothing but fun. I have to Google simple words, I have to look them up over and over again, it sucks. That’s why you don’t see a lot of photo details and wordage. It’s difficult for me to get the spelling correct. If I tried to spell without voice recognition I would flunk third grade for the third time. Luckily I had a fundamental curiosity in reality, that outweighed my ability to spell. I wasn’t born with all the gifts in the world, but I use the ones that I have. If you’re good at something, you cannot extrapolate that to something else. There are other people to show you. When you push yourself as far as you can, you run up against these people. Exceptional people, driven talented people.
