11 Things You Didn't Know About Diamond Dallas Page

9. He Couldn’t Read Until His 30s

DDP Christian
WWE.com

On Steve Austin’s podcast, Diamond Dallas Page talked about all he’d overcome to succeed in the business, and life in general. Besides his troubles breaking into wrestling, and the time it took for anyone to take him seriously, he also couldn’t read a book well into his adult years.

Page had severe dyslexia and ADD in his youth, and could only read at a third great level by the time he was 31. He decided to try and change that, so he set a goal to tackle. He challenged himself to read a page a day from a book. Just one page. Then within one year that book would be finished. The book was Lee Iacocca’s autobiography (a former CEO of Chrysler), and it was 352 pages long. In order to achieve that goal, Page and his wife Kimberly set notes out all around the house reminding him to read every single day. It worked.

Eventually all that work paid off. Not only did Page learn to read, but he later authored two books: Positively Page and Yoga For Regular Guys.

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