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Capturing Necessary Brilliance, Learning Differences Unleashed! A TEDx Talk by InventiveLabs

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A research lab and business incubator that helps adults with ADHD, dyslexia and learning differences
AMESBURY, Mass. - Feb. 8, 2016 - PRLog -- Rick Fiery, co-founder of InventiveLabs (http://www.inventivelabs.org), a research lab and business incubator that helps adults with ADHD, dyslexia and learning differences channel their strengths into fulfilling livelihoods, gave a TEDx talk (https://youtu.be/HuPRGknAT6Q) at TEDxAmoskeagMillyard. He describes what happens when these young people are provided an alternative to the socially ingrained ‘college to normal job’ path.

Making it into and through college can be a significant challenge for people with learning differences, and this often fuels a demoralizing pattern for both the student and their parents. As described in this TEDx presentation, these young adults are creative, entrepreneurial, and imaginative with huge potential, however, they often do not perform well in traditional school and work environments.

There are other paths to success. Studies of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs show that a disproportionate number of them have dyslexia and ADHD. They excelled despite their learning differences – and even because of them.

InventiveLabs harnesses this creativity in a unique setting that combines passion with structure. Texting and chair spinning are common sights for the facilitators, business mentors and visiting entrepreneurs that guide and inspire the Inventives. Tom Bergeron, co-founder states, “We have an approach that energizes our most brilliant and creative thinkers for whom the standard classroom and workplace often lead to underperformance and frustration.”

As Rick Fiery states in the TEDx talk, “At the Lab, we’ve learned that acceptance drives creativity. These folks haven’t had a lot of acceptance in their lives. Our walls filter out the negative noise which allows them to focus on their passions which leads to tremendous growth and an explosion of achievable ideas and goals.” The first round of Inventives has proven to be very successful: a bank teller from Australia fulfills her dream of starting a beach-wear line, an app design and development team secured nearly $270,000 in seed money, novels and graphic novels are being written and a soon-to-be owner of a neighborhood board-game store is exploring a niche market.

Read the TEDxAmoskeagMillyard transcript in its entirety here, and view it here.

InventiveLabs is a multi-track research center in Amesbury MA that facilitates investigations in Science, Engineering, Inventions, Medicine, Fashion, the Arts or wherever our ‘Inventives’ passion takes them! Our Inventives often think and learn differently than the general population; some have ADHD, dyslexia or other learning differences and others just see the world in a different light. The environment is fast-paced in a 24/7 facility with meals, recreation and quiet spaces, facilitators and life coaches. Our mission is to help Inventives create and follow through with their ideas, and then transition to the next phase, possibly into a spin-off business or back to college. An embedded business incubator helps start-ups and has access to angel funds. Each session is six months and is fee-based. Applications are being accepted for the next team on a rolling basis.

Contact:

Rick Fiery
rick.fiery@inventivelabs.org
InventiveLabs
21 Water St, 5th Floor
Amesbury, MA 01982
USA
Phone: +1 978-572-0350

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