
Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

“sweet spot,” the overlap of three spheres: what you love to do, what you are very good at doing, and what advances the mission of the group or what someone will pay you to do.
Ned Hallowell • Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive
“Attention deficit trait,” or ADT,
Ned Hallowell • Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive
ADT differs from ADD or ADHD in that it is caused by the context in which it occurs, while true ADD or ADHD are genetic in origin.
Ned Hallowell • Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive
The late Leston Havens, longtime professor of psychiatry at Harvard and one of the best teachers I ever had, once said to me, “You can do a whole psychotherapy centered around one question. ‘What do you want?’ Choosing which of those four words to put emphasis on—‘what,’ ‘do,’ ‘you,’ or ‘want’—takes the discussion in four completely different
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Ned Hallowell • Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
Ned Hallowell • Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive
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