ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction - from Childhood through Adulthood

Indeed, our minds are here and there and everywhere—all at once—which sometimes manifests as appearing to be somewhere else, in some dreamy state.

We are entrepreneurs ourselves, and the great majority of the adult patients we see for ADHD are or aspire to be entrepreneurs too. The owner and operator of an entrepreneurial support company called Strategic Coach, a man named Dan Sullivan (who also has ADHD!), estimates that at least 50 percent of his clients have ADHD as well.

We like irrational. We’re at home in uncertainty. We’re at ease where others are anxious. We’re relaxed not knowing where we are or what direction we’re headed in.

Often has trouble holding attention on tasks or play activities.

Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly.

People with ADHD are lovers in the sense that they tend to have unbridled optimism.

Is often easily distracted.

We offend people by forgetting names and promises, but we make good by understanding what nobody else has picked up on.

Unexplained underachievement.

Trouble with time management, and a tendency to procrastinate.