made my life which is cay ot oik, which is confusing and which i don't remember things, i can't mem orize, and yet-- memorize, and yet i found a waythat i add positively every day to what i did. and i don't have to reinvent the wheel. today i'll d what i did yesterday. and tomorrow i am gointo do wt i do today. and if i just stay there long enough, i will eventually have a painting. >> rose: episode 3 of the charlie rose brain series two underwritten by the simon foundation coming up. >> the charlie rose brain series is about the most exciting scientific journey of our time. understanding the brain. the series is made possible by a grant from the simon foundation. their mission is to advance the frontiers of research in the basic sciences and mathematics. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: . >> rose: additional fuing provided by these funders. and by bloomberg, a provider of-- information services worldwide captioning sponsored by rose communicaons from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: tonight we continue our exploration of the brain and

so i made my life which is chaotic, which is confusing, in which i don't remember things, i can't mem orize. and yet i fnd a way that i add positively every day for what i did. and i don't have to reinvent the wheel. today i'll do what i did yesterday. and tomorrow i am going to do what i do today. and if i just stay there long enough, i'l eventually have a paintin well, it removes all the anxiety and all those other things that used to drive me nuts. >> there are several things that you see that i find so interesting. you said to me one time that you never tried to hide your handicap so when kids had dyslexia oring proathosia they would sit at the back of the room and hope they never got called on. you always sat in the front. >> this was the thing that oliver sacks was so amazedment because oliver who is much more severely face blind and place blind and everything than i am, his approach was he would sit inhe back of the room and hope that nobody called on him. my approach was i'll sit in the front and i'll go like that. i won't have the answer, but i will demonstrate the fact that i care