The 58 year old author, physicist and poet has written more than 3000 poems and published books on emotion, schizophrenia and Albert Einstein.
Rodgers, who earned his bachelor’s in Mathematics at the University of Queensland, suffers fro dyslexia and epilepsy, but still managed to do well in school.
The poetic genius also hosts his own you Tube channel where he posts creative videos of his poems, music and information on his books.
In his biography he states :My life has consisted of agonies and ecstasies that I do not want to discuss. Although I did well at school, I was a dyslexic, epileptic misfit who suffered double vision and severe reading problems that meant my reading speed was 80 words per minute and,further,I could not read for more than 30 minutes per day until I was 20.